Picturising Text

The word cloud you see is a picturised version of this article. The size of each word is determined by its frequency in the text.

A word cloud attempts in picturising the general mood or tone of a narrative. Yes, it is not perfect since word-play and context are not part of the logic of creating the visual here. But you could study anything for which ‘frequency’ plays a major role.

If you haven’t created word clouds before and would like to do something like the one above, try Wordle. Its free and you dont need a degree from MIT to get it to work.

Now how about using Tagxedo to add some shape to these picturised texts like this one.

By the way, hockey - national game eh?