The images were created by a software program I wrote that reads an online version of the NYTimes. The program analyzed the grammar of each sentence through NLP (Natural Language Parsing). From the structure of each sentence, the program extracted words that are relevant to the meaning of the sentence. Those words are visually represented by an ellipse. The connection between the ellipses represent the semantic connection extracted from the grammar. The size of the ellipse represents the frequency in which it appears in the paper. ("Mr" was the largest ellipse in the picture, and "Ms" was nowhere to be seen.) Each ellipse has a unique color. The legend is therefore used to decipher what words the ellipses represent.