Tuesday 1 July 2008

More wordling

I'm a fan of Wordle. Since last week's post I've been playing with passages of text and seeing how Wordle cleverly creates a piece of word art, taking into account the frequency of the words that are used. The more frequently a word appears in the passage, the larger it is rendered in the picture.

Here's what happens if you input the address of the Bishop of Leicester's Presidential address to the May 2008 Diocesan Synod:
Click for a bigger view. Good, isn't it? And interesting how un-synod-like it looks. Great words here.

Just for fun, here are the minutes of the St Paul's DCC for May:

From the size of the word "Simon", it looks like I say too much.