Friday, September 2, 2011

Word clouds

I want to experiment with tag clouds. Just for comparison, I did a tag cloud on a number of web pages, just to see what they would look like. But I didn't get that much from it, actually. Then an idea struck me to try to get a feel for an essay by doing a word cloud analysis of it. For example, you can take an interview or an essay, like Limbaugh did with Dick Cheney. What did that word cloud look like? Let's take a look:


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Now compare this with Krugman's editorial
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I see more fear words in Krugman's essay.  Rush's interview seemed to have more thought words.


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