Cowo

Cowo takes a file containing several lines of text and creates a map of the terms contained in these lines.

What kind of "map of terms"?
=> [click here to visualize an example]

More precisely, please!
Let`s imagine you have a text file where each line contains a description of a car. You have 1000 lines, because there are 1000 different cars to describe. What Cowo does is read this file, Detect frequent words contained in it, and find the connections between these frequent words. For instance, if the words "nice v12 engine" frequently appears in the same descriptions as "ideal for car racing", Coword will catch it. At the end, Cowo spits out several files, two of which are really important (a "map" file and a "network" file). You take these two files, read them with VosViewer , and you obtain a map of your most frequent words, arranged according to how frequently they are connected in the same car descriptions.

Steps to get it to work:
- UnZip cowo.exe.zip
- Launch cowo.exe for Windows, or cowo.jar for Macs
- select your text with "select text file"
- click on "create map"
- done!

then:

- download
- open VosViewer
- click on "create" in the "action" tab
- select "create a map based on a network"
- you are prompted to select a "map" file (optional) and a "network" file. For the map file, take the map file that cowo just created. And select the network file just created by Cowo for the network file asked by VosViewer.
- go through the next windows by clicking "next" (just accept the Default values suggest.