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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Wordle's Beautiful Word Clouds

I feel terribly guilty in advance. If you check out this website (found via the New York Times Paper Cuts blog) I doubt you will get much work done today.

Wordle generates word clouds from the text you feed in, and then you can play around with colours and fonts and so on.

This is what happened when I fed it a couple of short short stories I'd written. (Click to enlarge and admire fully.) :




You can try it with a whole book. This is Moby Dick :


If you make an extra nice one, please link it in the comments!
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12 comments:

  1. Amir MuhammadJuly 09, 2008 9:50 am

    And this is my article on Kasit Biru Rubina which will be published today.

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  2. UnknownJuly 09, 2008 11:04 am

    Thanks for the link to the wordle:). I filled in some text, and it somehow became a blog post here

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  3. realitylaneJuly 09, 2008 1:18 pm

    wonder if i should do it with my extremely technical phd thesis and get something pretty out of that junk for a change.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 09, 2008 2:31 pm

    Fun! This is Robert Pinsky's "City Elegies"

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  5. bibliobibuliJuly 09, 2008 3:55 pm

    gosh the uses are endless. this is a work of art i call statutory declaration no 1

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  6. AnonymousJuly 09, 2008 5:26 pm

    listmania! what fun!

    Enjoy these ones!

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  7. marinekoJuly 09, 2008 11:25 pm

    i just fed wordle one of my short stories. this is potentially addictive :D

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  8. UnknownJuly 10, 2008 8:16 am

    Aiyo - die la!
    I have pasted loads of my health articles - hahahahhaha...
    But this one is a story I am working on http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/60416/Parallel_universes

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  9. realitylaneJuly 10, 2008 5:56 pm

    my thesis!
    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/60894/HIV-AIDS

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  10. bibliobibuliJuly 10, 2008 7:44 pm

    k - that's impressive.

    love all these. keep em coming!

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  11. Martin BradleyJuly 11, 2008 8:31 am

    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/62201/Little_Birds
    kinda like this

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  12. savanteJuly 21, 2008 8:55 pm

    Cool link! Will try it and post it on my blog.

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