Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Alia Sheikh wrote: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ Not all that late, as far as I can see - nothing particularly new (I have a backstage tag cloud tshirt somewhere...) but a nice and simple way of playing with clouds. Flickr has been filling up with various screengrabs for the last week or so, with some vaguely interesting ones popping up from time to time: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=allq=wordlem=text Sticking the complete text of books seems to be the current fad, which produces occasionally interesting, but generally pretty things. I ran my del.icio.us tags through it and it worryingly accurately described my brain (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cowfish/2583141053/). It's all rather pretty and has me wondering if I should do unspeakable things with scheduling data. Yes, you should. --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text
Alia, Thanks for posting that. They are quite interesting and pretty word clouds. I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. They also seem a usability nightmare... I'm guessing there is probably some massive successful word cloud out there and I've just missed it? 2008/6/19 Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ It's a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. It's all rather pretty and has me wondering if I should do unspeakable things with scheduling data. Alia - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text
I just realised that these are just pictures, the don't actually do anything... 2008/6/19 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alia, Thanks for posting that. They are quite interesting and pretty word clouds. I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. They also seem a usability nightmare... I'm guessing there is probably some massive successful word cloud out there and I've just missed it? 2008/6/19 Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ It's a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. It's all rather pretty and has me wondering if I should do unspeakable things with scheduling data. Alia - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text
I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. Probably shortly after Jeffry Zeldman described them as the mullet of web 2.0 ;) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] cool visualisation thing for text
yup, 'fraid so:) I just rather liked it wikipedia gets you any number of more useful ones under Tag Cloud Tools and Articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud Alia Brian Butterworth wrote: I just realised that these are just pictures, the don't actually do anything... 2008/6/19 Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alia, Thanks for posting that. They are quite interesting and pretty word clouds. I'm just wondering if people actually use them? For example, they used to appear on sites like CiF, but they have been removed. They also seem a usability nightmare... I'm guessing there is probably some massive successful word cloud out there and I've just missed it? 2008/6/19 Alia Sheikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ It's a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. It's all rather pretty and has me wondering if I should do unspeakable things with scheduling data. Alia - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk http://backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] cool visualisation thing for text
So I might be coming late to the party, but have y'all seen this? http://wordle.net/ It's a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. It's all rather pretty and has me wondering if I should do unspeakable things with scheduling data. Alia - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
