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Wordle, created by Jonathan Feinberg at IBM Research, is described as "a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide." This online site allows you to upload your own data or input the URL of a website. Wordle generates a word cloud of your source text in which greater prominence is given to words that appear more frequently. You may generate multiple word clouds of the same source text in different colours and fonts using either a "randomize" option or by using the formatting menu to modify language, font, layout, and colour. This is not a robust research tool; however, there are multiple classroom applications at any level of education.
The image on this page is a Wordle of the introductory paragraph.
Further description of this tool is available here: http://entry.tapor.ca/?id=4
Wordle is a personal project of Jonathan Feinberg at IBM Research. Credits are listed here: <http://www.wordle.net/credits>.
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