{"id":2394,"date":"2012-09-17T22:53:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2015-04-26T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:33:09","slug":"word-clouds-are-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/word-clouds-are-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Clouds are Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a whim, I decided to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tag_cloud\" target=\"_blank\">word cloud<\/a> of all the content on my blog, as of the evening of Sept 17, 2012 (dating back to June 30, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2395\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/word-clouds-are-fun\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g.png?fit=1680%2C852&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1680,852\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g.png?fit=1024%2C519&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2395\" title=\"wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g-1024x519.png?resize=584%2C295\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g.png?resize=1024%2C519&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g.png?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g.png?resize=500%2C253&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wp-word-cloud-2012-09-17_g.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Word clouds are fun and very easy to make with services such as\u00a0<a title=\"Wordle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wordle<\/a>\u00a0(though I happened to have used\u00a0<em>IBM Word Cloud Generator<\/em>\u00a0in this case).<\/p>\n<p>I am a bit surprised at what words stand out in the above word cloud, versus the things I am currently interested in, and wish that were more visible (i.e. photography, image processing, gpu&#8230;). It looks like now I have some direction and new motivation to keep fresh blog posts coming!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a whim, I decided to make a word cloud of all the content on my blog, as of the evening of Sept 17, 2012 (dating back to June 30, 2010). Word clouds are fun and very easy to make with services such as\u00a0Wordle\u00a0(though I happened to have used\u00a0IBM Word Cloud Generator\u00a0in this case). I &#8230; <a title=\"Word Clouds are Fun\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/word-clouds-are-fun\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Word Clouds are Fun\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,70],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-word-cloud","tag-word-clouds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZdXI-CC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2872,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/word-cloud-resume-hack\/","url_meta":{"origin":2394,"position":0},"title":"Word Cloud R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Improvement","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"June 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Preface By no means do I claim have an impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9, but I did want to share a trick I thought of to help me improve it. 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