19. The computerized system of claim 11 , wherein topics are ordered to represent their relationships.
11. A computerized system for the analysis of textual data, comprising: one or more memories operable for storing and one or more processors operable for receiving textual data to be analyzed; an algorithm executed on the one or more processors operable for formatting the textual data for subsequent analysis; an algorithm executed on the one or more processors operable for applying a probabilistic topic model to the textual data to extract a set of semantically meaningful topics that collectively describe all or a portion of the textual data; a keyword weighting module executed on the one or more processors operable for generating a topic cloud view representing the topics as a tagcloud with each being associated with a plurality of keywords; a topic ordering module executed on the one or more processors operable for generating a document distribution view representing a distribution of all or a portion of the textual data across multiple topics; a document entropy calculation module executed on the one or more processors operable for generating a document scatterplot view representing how many topics are attributable to all or a portion of the textual data; a temporal topic trend calculation module executed on the one or more processors operable for generating a temporal view representing changes in the occurrence of topics over time in relation to all or a portion of the textual data; and a display operable for displaying one or more of the topic cloud view, the document distribution view, the document scatterplot view, and the temporal view to a user in the analysis of all or a portion of the textual data.