#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 9, 2011
#2: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 9, 2011
So this is the result of feeding the entire contents of the forum to wordle.net.#3: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 9, 2011
Well, after a lot of fiddling. I eliminated a couple hundreds common words like "and", "a" and "enough". I did some stemming, so "puzzle" and "puzzles" are both counted together.
Just noticed that I didn't merge "thank" with "thanks" or fix the capitalization of "ok". Oh well.
Until I tried making one, I hadn't realized how much manipulation goes into them. I could, for example, have eliminated "make" as a common word, since many instances are probably just things like "It doesn't make any difference to me", but by leaving it in I'm giving perhaps undue emphasis to webpbn as a place where people make things.
New version, with more stemming and some other fixes:#4: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 9, 2011
Just to emphasize how much manipulation goes into these things, here's a raw version for comparison:#5: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on May 9, 2011
That's funny! You'd think the program would be smart enough to leave out articles and prepositions.#6: Gator (Gator) on May 9, 2011
Very cool!#7: Teresa K (fasstar) on May 9, 2011
How fun! I like the first one.#8: Liz P (lizteach) on May 9, 2011
Hey, Gator, Jota, and Tom, we're in there! You too, Sarah and Bugaboo (if you squint). :-D
Neato.#9: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on May 9, 2011
The last one made me smile. "And the I to you" too!
Don't forget Jan & Adam. I thought I also saw "qwerty" in the top image, but that might've been "lovely" :D#10: Byrdie (byrdie) on May 9, 2011
Just an observation: The first one says "pretty Adam" and the second says "bad Adam."#11: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on May 9, 2011
This is such a cool thing. Does the size of the font represent the frequency of words? If that is the case, mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint#12: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on May 9, 2011
What can I say? I am "pretty bad." :-)#13: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 10, 2011
Yes, size of font indicates frequency of the word. Placement and color of words is random.#14: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 10, 2011
I later noticed a switch on the wordle web site that makes it eliminate common words, but I had already done it manually. It doesn't do stemming, I had to do that manually.
The word cloud is basically a cloud of positivity.#15: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on May 10, 2011
This is really cool.#16: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on May 10, 2011
Wow Jan! mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint this is such an interesting site. I, mootpoint always learn so much. Is there any difference between a wordle and a word cloud asked mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint? Cloud of positivity? mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint#17: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on May 10, 2011
I'll add some for Brian. mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint mootpoint :)#18: Liz P (lizteach) on May 10, 2011
LOL @ Brian.#19: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 10, 2011
I think "word cloud" is a general term, and wordle is a specific website that generates them.#20: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on May 10, 2011
I don't expect to re-run this in the future, since I doubt if there'd be substantive differences. If I ever do, I might just have to add "mootpoint" to the stop list.
I suppose I could word cloud individual users...nah, why go there?
Thank you Sarah Sarah Sarah Sarah#21: Jota (jota ) on May 25, 2011
I love it! Thanks!#22: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Aug 14, 2013
There's another site that does this sort of thing, but adds two more visualizations. The Correlation Wheel looks especially interesting. http://***textisbeautiful.net***/
This link has died and gone to spam hell.
Here is what the Correlation Wheel looked like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=textisbeautiful.net+correlation+wheel&tbm=isch
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