8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the counts of the similar documents comprises: determining a similarity rating for documents in collected data by comparing a document feature vector of the reference document to a document feature vector of the documents in the collected data; and for each similarity rating, determining a number of documents having the corresponding similarity rating.
1. A method comprising: determining, by a processing device, counts of documents similar to a reference document for a plurality of similarity ratings, each similarity rating being based on a number of co-occurring terms between the reference document and corresponding similar documents; presenting in a graphical user interface (GUI) the reference document and a GUI element pertaining to the documents similar to the reference document; and upon a selection of the GUI element, presenting in the GUI a second GUI element comprising the similarity ratings associated with the reference document; and in response to selecting one of the similarity ratings, presenting in the second GUI element a visual representation of the counts of similar documents that indicate a number of documents that are retrievable based on the selected similarity rating, wherein the visual representation is provided prior to retrieving one of the similar documents.