Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Thing #12: word clouds

Here is my word cloud that I made about this blog.


And here is another one from an anecdote I wrote about my recent trip to Montana


After creating the word clouds I gained a little bit of insight into both the document I submitted as well as my blog. I found it interesting to see what the most prominent word were and in terms of my blog it allowed me to confirm my word choices as being prudent to the text within the documents i.e. “writing” was one of the larger words. Some of the other words that seemed to be most prominent included the following: thinking, walked, looking, towns, store, really, word, false, and posted. Overall, I don’t really think that this visual representation brought out any thoughts that I didn’t get from reading since I was the author of both the documents in the first place. Also, I think it sort of reaffirmed my word choices since when I look at the maps I think to myself “oh ya, I remember including that word” or something along those lines. Moreover, I don’t really think that this has many professional applications because it seems too childish in the sense that the shapes are rather whimsical and I don’t think it would add much to the professional world. But nevertheless, it is a fun thing to play around with.
 

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