This is rather nice. Wordle is a web tool that takes a bunch of text and converts it in to something akin to a tag cloud, with word size based on the frequency they occur.
Here's my 2001 MA thesis on polysemy in advertising:
Click on the thumbnail to try it out yourself, and take a look at these created from the subtitles for various episodes of Doctor Who.
Visual Communication: From Theory to Practice
(Winner of 'Best Higher Education Title' at the British Book Awards 2006)
by Jonathan Baldwin and Lucienne Roberts
More Than A Name: An introduction to branding
by Melissa Davis and Jonathan Baldwin
2 comments:
Hi Jonathan,
Teal Triggs sent me here and I saw this - loved it so I posted it on dynamolondon.org - hope you don't mind - credited you as my source.
I was at NewsViews2 - I bought you a Fairtrade tea, remember?
Regards,
Derek Stewart
Hi Derek
I do remember you - I never got you a tea in return!
I like Wordle - thinking of doing one for every lecture next year to see if it helps students' recall...
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