Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Corpus Linguistics for the Cloud Crowd


Recently cloud/cluster representations of online data have been emerging in popularity, and they're now progressing from a wider 'art form' to personally-accessible utilities. The innovative work of Jonathan Harris has produced personally-accessible such as Wordcount, an evolving graphic representation of lexical frequency in the English language. Even more accessible and playful is Tweet Clouds by John Krutsch and Jared Stein, which quickly grabs public 'tweets' from Twitter streams like mine, and generates a graphic representation of word frequency.

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