Friday, August 21, 2009

Wordle

This is really cool. We were at a talk at the Wildcenter today where the authors of a new book about the Adirondacks used the program found at http://www.wordle.net/ to produce slides showing the topics in each section of the book. Wordle takes any text and creates a graphic that "gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text". And you have lots of control over the results, choosing fonts, colors, shape, etc. Here is what I created for "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. Here is another one. Can you guess what it is?

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