http://www.wordle.net/
Author: Laura Klemme
Wordle is a site for creating word clouds of text that you select. Word clouds give a view of the text that visually displays words in a larger size the more frequently they appear. Either cut and paste your text into a window or point to a url; Wordle does the rest.
Wordle of Barrack Obama's Victory Speech
November 4, 2008.
(Transcript source: npr.org; Word cloud: wordle.net)
A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
Barrak Obama's victory speech is shown above. At a glance, you can see the dominate message of his speech by the size of the words. This is certainly a historic moment in US history as the first African-American President Elect speaks to the nation. The full transcript does not give you the visual message that a word cloud can provide, true to the saying, 'A picture is worth a thousand words.'
Artistic?
Wordle is not your ordinary word cloud generator. It offers a creative way of displaying your word clouds. Wordle lets you modify your clouds with different controls over the fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The gallery has a few colorful displays of Obama's victory speech submitted by various contributors. Here are a few: Obama1 and Obama2.
Wordle of John McCain's Consession Speech
November 4, 2008.
(Word cloud: wordle.net)
The gallery also posts, John McCain's gracious concession speech, shown above. Again, the message speaks through this visual representation.
Creative Commons License
The images you create with Wordle are part of the Creative Commons license. You can create a gallery and share them, view other Wordles, link to them on blogs or web pages or print them out.
Author: Laura Klemme
Wordle is a site for creating word clouds of text that you select. Word clouds give a view of the text that visually displays words in a larger size the more frequently they appear. Either cut and paste your text into a window or point to a url; Wordle does the rest.
Wordle of Barrack Obama's Victory Speech
November 4, 2008.
(Transcript source: npr.org; Word cloud: wordle.net)
A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
Barrak Obama's victory speech is shown above. At a glance, you can see the dominate message of his speech by the size of the words. This is certainly a historic moment in US history as the first African-American President Elect speaks to the nation. The full transcript does not give you the visual message that a word cloud can provide, true to the saying, 'A picture is worth a thousand words.'
Artistic?
Wordle is not your ordinary word cloud generator. It offers a creative way of displaying your word clouds. Wordle lets you modify your clouds with different controls over the fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The gallery has a few colorful displays of Obama's victory speech submitted by various contributors. Here are a few: Obama1 and Obama2.
Wordle of John McCain's Consession Speech
November 4, 2008.
(Word cloud: wordle.net)
The gallery also posts, John McCain's gracious concession speech, shown above. Again, the message speaks through this visual representation.
Creative Commons License
The images you create with Wordle are part of the Creative Commons license. You can create a gallery and share them, view other Wordles, link to them on blogs or web pages or print them out.
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