Life is a Mystery

10 October 2008

Clustered clouds

I love word clouds and wordle has sure taken over the earth of late. But it is hard to “read” a wordle cloud, don’t you think?

wordle cloud

Jeff Clark of Neoformix has demonstrated a great idea for word clouds: clustering the words based on their assaociations in a text.

association cloud

Much clearer. I expect we’ll see more of this.

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Eric Celeste / Saint Paul, Minnesota / 651.323.2009 / efc@clst.org