The following graphs are intended to provide a visual representation of the patterns of reference usage in our corpus. The table of contents below can be used to navigate to a specific graph.
This graph provides a representation, by percentage, of the dispersal of each reference type between our artists, to show which issues are more heavily stressed by which artists.
The following graphs provide a representation of the relative frequency of different types of references in our corpus, calculated on aggregate, and for each individual artist. To ensure that each reference is visible and prevent outputting an unweildy graph, the bars were calculated as the square root of the total counts of each reference type, multiplied by an enlarging factor.
Positive instances of a reference add to the height of the bar above the x-axis, while negative add to its extension below. Neutral references are split between the two, providing the gradience along the central shift by the x-axis; the larger the gradient event, the more often neutral references of that particular type appeared. It should be noted that most of the gradient sections are relatively small, revealing the typically stark stance that these artists take on particular issues.