Navigate the evolution of South African English using data visualisation

Graphical overviews

Our data visualisations map enriched historical dictionary content to dynamic infographic charts. View 300 years of South African English at a glance, zooming to reveal deeper layers of informational detail (not just pixels) or panning to words coined in the same era.

Navigation tools

Visual navigation frees users from traditional, purely textual or list-based dictionary access. Our proportional mapping lets you manipulate the entire dictionary from multiple points of view. Effortless click-throughs of the South African variety of English highlight linguistic relationships along the way.

Custom visualisations

The dictionary documents words as used by writers, explorers and other historical figures. Create charts that show how frequently-cited authors intersect or diverge across the lexicon's subject domains; data points previously overlooked as unrelated text are now aggregated and collated graphically.