Verbum Tip 5q: Bible Search – Charting part 2

MJ. Smith · February 2021

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Bible Search – charting part 2

Setup

For purposes of illustrating the available charting functions, a simple search for the text word “faith” in the Pauline epistles will be used, running it against of collection of explicitly Catholic Bibles.

Given the options I have recently used in charts when I click on Charts I get:

Note that only the first five Bibles from the search results are used in the charting.
The colors of the search grid are independent of the color in the charts.
The menu to change the Bible selection is opened by clicking on the resource list (1).

Detail visible on mouse-over

Mouse over each of the 3-D bars provides the following data:

Bible version
Book of the Bible
Frequency of the word “faith” (per thousand words)

Modifying which Bibles show in the chart

Check a Bible to show it in the chart
Uncheck a Bible to exclude it in the chart
A limit of 5 Bibles may be selected

Selection:

Chart:

To add a legend, select the view menu (2)

Add a legend

Show the view menu

The chart with a legend applied:

Show zero results

In order to have zero results to show, change the search argument from “faith” to “hope”.

Select charts

Select show zero results
Limit results to NRSV-CE

Chart with show zero results

2 Timothy is shown without results

Same chart without show zero results being set:

2 Timothy is omitted from the chart as it has no results