QueryPic deconstructed¶

Visualise searches in Trove's digitised newspapers¶

QueryPic is a tool I created many years ago to visualise searches in Trove's digitised newspapers. It shows you the number of articles each year that match your query — instead of a page of search results, you see the complete result set. You can look for patterns and trends across time.

This is a deconstructed, extended, and hackable version of QueryPic.

Enter your Trove API key¶

Get your own Trove API key and enter it below.

Set a date range¶

Add your search queries¶

You can just add a single search query to see how the number of matching articles vary over time. But you can also compare frequencies between queries, states, and newspapers:

Compare queries — cat vs dog
Compare states — swimmers in NSW, Victoria, and Queensland
Compare newspapers — protectionism in The Age vs The Argus

Created by Tim Sherratt for the GLAM Workbench.
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