Friday, January 30, 2009

Wordle to Create a Visual Cluster of Concepts

I celebrated my birthday on January 20th. What a day! The entire day, I felt like a surfer riding a never-ending wave, thrilled and exuberant. Sitting with a large UCSF crowd on campus, I watched President Obama's swearing in and Inaugural Address . The celebration that day didn't stop until I finally turned off the tv after NightLine.

So what's this big prelude leading to? I wanted to share a novel tool called Wordle that allows you to paste in any text and have it create a visual representation, called a word cloud, of the major themes of the content. I tried Wordle out for the first time by pasting in the transcript of Obama's Inaugural Address. Below is the word cloud generated.



Creating the word cloud is very easy:

(1) Go to http://www.wordle.net & select the Create link at the top
(2) Paste in text or the URL of the site you want to Wordle
(3) Select Go or Submit
(4) When the word cloud is generated, you can change the layout, font, and color

I also created a word cloud of an abstract for the article below:

Dunn, LB, Iglewicz, A, & Moutier, C. (2008). A conceptual model of medical student well-being: promoting resilience and preventing burnout. Academic psychiatry, 32(1), 44-53.


Have fun with Wordle! It paints a picture that gives words an extra dimension.

at

4 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 16, 2015 at 11:20 PM

    ce again." by Shana Alexander. Jasa Rumah Bangunan Jasa Desain Rumah Jasa Desain Interior Jual Paving Jual Pasir Jual Bata Jual Hebel Jual Baja Ringan Jual Genteng Jual Besi Jasa Pasang Contblock Jasa Cor Hotmix

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownNovember 23, 2015 at 11:27 PM

    y as this 1. I mean, I know it was my op jual rumah dibali apartment di jakarta apartment jakarta pusat apartment jakarta barat jual apartemen sudirman park bintaro rumah apartemen di jakarta apartemen bersubsidi apartemen di jakarta utara apartemen daerah jakarta apartemen setiabudi jakarta apartemen termahal nama apartemen di jakarta apartemen subsidi jakarta apartemen slipi jakarta barat apartemen batavia jakarta terkejut apartemen mewah jakarta apartemen bersubsidi baju murah harga grosir butik baju korea online

    ReplyDelete
  3. UnknownNovember 24, 2015 at 12:24 AM

    e mainly because 7090 for each cent of t butik baju online supplier baju online tas import grosir tas import murah tas murah import grosir tas branded grosir tas murah tas branded murah tas murah tas tas murah grosir tas murah tas grosir murah tas murah grosir tas import branded tas batam murah tas murah batam tas super kw tas wanita rumah disewa di alam sutera rumah di alam sutera serpong

    ReplyDelete
  4. UnknownNovember 25, 2015 at 9:43 PM

    e. Where else could I get that type of i jual rumah di jakarta apartemen baru di jakarta harga apartemen di jakarta rumah jual jakarta jual apartemen di apartemen di jakarta apartemen jakarta timur sewa apartemen di jakarta sewa harian apartemen sewa apartemen murah di sewa apartemen murah jakarta selatan apartemen murah di kuala sewa apartemen bulanan di jakarta untuk sewa apartemen bulanan jakarta sewa apartement di sewa rumah jakarta apartemen daerah sewa harian apartemen sewa apartemen harian serviced apartment jakarta

    ReplyDelete