Inspired by the “Spiegel-Mining” talk from David Kriesel, a friend of mine and a Prof. from the Hochschule Magdeburg scraped a german website that regularly publishes reviews of social work literature, and mined the resulting 18.000 articles, hoping for interesting insights.
In an attempt to visualize the discourse, we created several topic maps, like the one below, which you can find on the accompanying (german) website. The colours represent the gender of the authors of the review.