Everyone is amused by Wordle these days. Plug in (or link to) some text, and it makes quite a nice word cloud, customizable in all sorts of ways. At least Abbas had the modesty to try Hamlet, rather than one of his own pieces.
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:
BTW, “ilneterate” and “ilbiterate” appear a few cases other than my uses on Google, but I basically introduced the -acy forms there FWIW.
Brian Mingus
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
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?).
http://www.coxklosek.com Robert the Red
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.
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.
Sign up to get the latest science news delivered weekly right to your inbox!
Cosmic Variance
Random samplings from a universe of ideas.
About Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson.
Here are some of his favorite blog posts, home page, and email: carroll [at] cosmicvariance.com .
Pingback: Stochastic Scribbles » Blog Archive » Scribbled word cloud