Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

January 28, 2011

Building a Better Word Cloud – Post

Filed under: Clustering — Patrick Durusau @ 7:31 am

Building a Better Word Cloud

Drew Conway talks about why word clouds don’t work (space based display of non-spatial data is how I would summarize it, but see for yourself).

He then proceeds to create a comparative word cloud. Palin and Obama on the Arizona shootings.

I include this post here as a caution that space based clustering can be mis-leading if not outright deceptive.

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