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’m not so modest; this is my Scientific American article.
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An equally-immodest experimentalist counterpoint:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/81633/US-LHC_Blogs
Excellent! I promise to post any good ones that are submitted.
Universe Fluctuations: AKA Cosmic Variance 😉
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/81748/Universe_Fluctuations
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.
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
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?).
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.
Obama wordles!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25652913@N03/tags/obamawordles/
Robert:
I do a direct comparison here:
http://lablemminglounge.blogspot.com/2008/05/titanium-as-cathodoluminescence.html
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!
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.
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