Wordle- a cool tool for visualizations
Jun 16th, 2008 by Mark Spahr
Thanks to a tweet from Will Richardson, I now have a new site to play with and use with students. Wordle is quick and easy site to create word clouds from any text or from your delicious tags. From their site:
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Here is the word cloud that I created from my delicious tags:
