What's probably the best-known word in Moby Dick doesn't appear in the cloud: Ishmael.
Wordle lets you do the same thing to any string of text. You can choose the colors and the font, too.--David E
With thanks to the Paper Cuts blog.
Monday, July 7, 2008
A World Without Ishmael
Caleb Crain, who posts on the blog Steamboats Are Ruining Everything, copied and pasted the entire text of Moby Dick into Wordle.net. Wordle analyzes the frequency of words in a text, then arranges them to make a "word cloud." The more frequent the word, the bigger it appears. This is the result, comprising the 75 most-used words:
What's probably the best-known word in Moby Dick doesn't appear in the cloud: Ishmael.
Wordle lets you do the same thing to any string of text. You can choose the colors and the font, too.--David E
With thanks to the Paper Cuts blog.
What's probably the best-known word in Moby Dick doesn't appear in the cloud: Ishmael.
Wordle lets you do the same thing to any string of text. You can choose the colors and the font, too.--David E
With thanks to the Paper Cuts blog.
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