Word clouds with Wordle
Wordle is a free tool that turns a block of text, or simply a list of words, into a cloud pattern. Words that are used most frequently are displayed most prominently. You can play with layout, font, and colors to change the appearance or highlight certain vocabulary. Wordle is useful for analyzing text, comparing newspaper coverage of a specific issue, and summarizing the content of student papers or presentations.
Here's a Wordle of President McCormick's Annual Address. I've limited the number of words to 50, to make it easier to read.
It's really easy to create a Wordle. You simply copy some text into a box on the Wordle website and click "Create."
Here's a Wordle of President McCormick's Annual Address. I've limited the number of words to 50, to make it easier to read.
It's really easy to create a Wordle. You simply copy some text into a box on the Wordle website and click "Create."
posted by Gayle Stein at
1:51 PM
3 Comments:
This is one brilliant program. I have just been playing around with it and have created a couple of clouds already. Thank you for this information. I will be using this most definitely in the future. Thank you once again.
Wordle interface is a Java applet, so you need to turn on Java Support on your browser. You can save the file as a PDF or take a print out directly from the applet. There is no option to save as an image file, but you can always take a screenshot.
Here is a great site for making striking word clouds at Tagzedo .
Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes into a visually stunning word cloud.
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