12 Responses to “Words in the Clouds”

1. 1.   Seth Zenz Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 am

   An equally-immodest experimentalist counterpoint:

   http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/81633/US-LHC_Blogs

2. 2.   Sean Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 am

   Excellent! I promise to post any good ones that are submitted.

3. 3.   Alex Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm

   Universe Fluctuations: AKA Cosmic Variance

   http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/81748/Universe_Fluctuations

4. 4.   Neil B. Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm

   I “couldn’t resist” and this Wordle cloud seems to perfectly get the scoop on McCain’s ilbiteracy and ilneteracy. It is though the main post, not the entire thread with comments so I slightly mistitled it:

   http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/82244/Cosmic_Variance_thread_on_McCain_just_now_learning_the_Internet

   BTW, “ilneterate” and “ilbiterate” appear a few cases other than my uses on Google, but I basically introduced the -acy forms there FWIW.

5. 5.   Brian Mingus Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm

   Very cool.. Here’s one made from a dump of the text on the wiki for our neural simulator, Emergent. (I hope you don’t mind that I used the same font Sean

   http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/82512/emergent_final
   http://grey.colorado.edu/emergent

6. 6.   Lab Lemming Says:
   July 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm

   On the “trying to find a lame work-based justification for procrastination” front, a bunch of us tried word clouding papers and comparing them to the author-generated keywords.
   See http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/05/04/text-cloud-for-two-of-my-papers/ and associated links if you’re desperately trying to waste time (and if you aren’t, why is your web browser open?).

7. 7.   Robert the Red Says:
   July 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 am

   Why not use the Wordle of a paper’s text in place of the abstract?

   I think I’ll put a Wordle on my next poster presentation. Or maybe use it as the ‘Outline’ slide for my next talk.

8. 8.   comrogue Says:
   July 23rd, 2008 at 6:23 am

   Obama wordles!

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/25652913@N03/tags/obamawordles/

9. 9.   Lab Lemming Says:
   July 23rd, 2008 at 6:14 pm

   Robert:
   I do a direct comparison here:
   http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/2008/05/titanium-as-cathodoluminescence.html

10. 10.   Michaela Says:
    July 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am

    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/88320/Binding_of_nucleolar_proteins_to_polynucleotide_kinase
    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/88325/Immunofluorescence_of_human_polynucleotide_kinase

    I would like support for Greek characters!

11. 11.   Claire Says:
    August 26th, 2008 at 7:13 am

    Sean – thanks so much for this link, Wordle is great! I had a lot of fun this weekend procrastinating with it, one of which I think you might enjoy:
    http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/138118/Cosmic_Microwave_Background
    Text is from wikipedia with some tweaking on my part.

12. 12.   Stochastic Scribbles » Blog Archive » Scribbled word cloud Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    [...] Java applet, so there isn’t any worry that generating images will overload the Wordle server. Cosmic Variance and the US/LHC Blogs are two sites that have already succumbed to the fad. With such prestigious [...]