Back
in February, I very briefly reviewed the Wordle™ idea http://www.wordle.net/ and Garreth Chandler’s new option https://www.wordyup.com/ .
Since then I’ve been
playing some more on the Wordle™ site and
noticed a link to yet another alternative at http://textisbeautiful.net/ .
And this one is
rather nice. In the words of the authors,
their approach … “deals in concepts, not words. A concept is a collection
of words that is automatically discovered from the text.“ Further, it… “provides more visualisations than just the concept cloud (our concept
cloud is visually similar to the Wordle output but uses more advanced text
analytics underneath).”
So I thought I would try it
out for the text on my own website, as I had already done with http://www.wordle.net/. Here’s the Wordle™ result
redone, for reference, followed by three alternative representations from http://textisbeautiful.net/ .
I honestly don’t know which I prefer. The Wordle™ obviously emphasises individual words. The textisbeautiful format emphasises what it
deems to be individual themes, and there appear to be far fewer themes than
words on my website. Maybe I am
shallower than I think?
