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Clustered clouds

/ 10 October 2008

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

](http://www.neoformix.com/2008/ClusteredWordClouds.html)

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

[association cloud

](http://www.neoformix.com/2008/ClusteredWordClouds.html)

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