TagCrowd Creates Word Frequency Cloud
Whether you’d like to hunt down words you overuse or you’re looking to turn text from your manifesto into word art, TagCrowd can create a simple tag cloud based on the frequency of words.
There are three options for importing text into TagCrowd. You can give it a URL, useful if the URL points to a large volume of text but less useful for making a word cloud based on a blog because it doesn’t drill down through links. Alternately you can upload a plain text file with a 100KB size limit or cut and paste up to 3MB of text into the provided text box—no indication on the site why there is such a sizable difference between uploading the text and pasting it. Once you’ve provided your text you then tell TagCrowd what language the text is in and it will automatically ignore common words in that language such as articles, avoiding a cloud with a giant THE in the centre.
You can set the maximum number of words as well as the minimum frequency. You can also have TagCrowd show the frequency number next to the word. If there is a specific set of words from your text sample you would like to be ignored you can create a custom filter list to prevent them from appearing in the cloud. TagCrowd is a free application. Thanks Mike!
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I second wordle for the artsy approach. I've been combining it with Project Gutenberg as a sort of mini-game.
razordu30
@bobbo33: I just realized that the expert-exchange link may hide the content from you, so instead of directly following it, search for the link in google and view it from there (or view google's cached version).
bobbo33
If you want to roll your own tag-cloud (instead of a web service), you can use this html code: [www.experts-exchange.com]
It's a simple javascript that creates the cloud from a fixed array. It wouldn't be hard to add to a "load from file" option to the javascript.
bobbo33
@ShawnC++: Alice? Alice is a racist name?
Guymann
What I like about this over Wordle (Java applet) is it's easier to copy-and-paste the words into a text editor, to subsequently use on YouTube or another place where you want hot tags generated from meaty text.
I think Wordle does a nicer job of this. [www.wordle.net]
Brian Little
@kettlewhistle: He's pointing to the use of "crowd" as "cloud" said in a bogus Asian accent. I only notice because I there are Asians in my family, so I get kind of sensitive to this. Even so, I don't think I could bring myself to peg this as "racist," hence my earlier comment.
Brian Little
@ShawnC++: To me, that says more about the listener/reader than it does about the person who named the service.
Brian Little
@ShawnC++: Nope, still don't get it. What are you talking about?
kettlewhistle
what?
Nice unintentionally racist name (give it a second, you'll get it)
@Brian Little: If you wouldn't have spelled it out for me, I'd have never even made the connection.
This one is from the book that I wrote.
AlinaEfreisone
I agree - give me wordle anytime
FifiNarbie