Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
I’ve seen various textcloud applications before, but Wordle (via Steve Poole) is the first one that I’ve seen that makes it easy to produce aesthetically attractive pictures of the information. Below is the textcloud of my book, “The Political Economy of Trust: Institutions, Interests and Inter-Firm Cooperation” which I’m preparing for publication in Cambridge’s Comparative [...]
Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Henry beat me to the punch by about five minutes, dammit. Here’s my wordley representation of my book, Last Best Gifts. I didn’t look at the site closely enough to see if I could get a PDF of the output, but it would be nice to have one.
PoliBlog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Via Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber is a nice site to make “word clouds” and the nifty idea of making one from a book manuscript. Here’s one made from my forthcoming (so they tell), Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia (click for the full-sized image): Henry has one of his forthcoming book, The [...]
Signifying Nothing (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Via PoliBlog , here’s the Wordle of the blog of late: And, just for my amusement, I dumped my entire dissertation in and got this:
The Duck of Minerva (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Although I've played around with Wordle (h/t Daniel Little ) before, I admit that I never thought of using it for a particular form of academic navel-gazing: generating text-clouds of one's books. Thus, following in the immortal footsteps of Henry Farrell , Kirean Healy , and Steven Taylor , I present.... Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change in Early Modern Europe (Princeton,...
Kieran Healy's Weblog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Henry beat me to the punch by about five minutes, dammit. Here’s my wordley representation of my book, Last Best Gifts. I didn’t look at the site closely enough to see if I could get a PDF of the output, but it would be nice to have one.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Via the guys at Crooked Timber . A new editable textcloud application - Wordle . Here’s what Slugger looks like right now. Adds new image
La Profesora Abstraída (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Inspired by Chris , I thought I'd share. My book My delicious
Cosmic Variance (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Everyone is amused by Wordle these days. Plug in (or link to) some text, and it makes quite a nice word cloud, customizable in all sorts of ways. At least Abbas had the modesty to try Hamlet, rather than one of his own pieces. I’m not so modest; this is my Scientific American article.
