Wordle & Tagxedo

Presented By:Brian Gannon & Connie Jaeger

Word Clouds 

Wordle & TagxedoThis presentation will explore Wordle.net and Tagxedo.com

1) Creating word clouds

2) Different importing options

3) Changing the look of the cloud

4) Exporting, saving and printing clouds

 

Creating a Cloud in Wordle

  ✦ Enter your text using copy/paste, or type manually

✦ Enter the URL of a web page you want to analyze

✦ Enter the username of a del.icio.us user to see their tags

OR

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Wordle

PRESS GO

 

Click “Randomize” until you have a look you enjoy

Or, we can make our own changes...

• Font

• Layout

• Color

Things we can change

Printing and saving

The only bad part of Wordle.

There is a direct Print option

No Save option- you can use a “screen capture”-Mac: Command+Shift+4-PC: “print screen” button, then paste

Tagxedo

Very similar to Wordle

Big difference: create different shapes

Getting started

Two ways to create

Creating & Changing

To add text

Creating & Changing

To Save, Print, Share

Creating & Changing

To change the way it looks}

Respin - randomly change

Lock - don’t allow changes

Menu - manually change options

Creating & Changing

To use a shape instead of a “cloud”

Creating & Changing

Advanced options, not used often

Advanced Options Vocabulary

Frequency Modifier - allows you to increase the number of times a word is used without retyping the word

Normalize Frequency - Will make a list of unrepeated words look like a normal word cloud

Spread - how different do you want the biggest and smallest words to be? (preset at 40)

Code tricks

MDMC:50 - will automatically increase the frequency of “MDMC” to 50

San~Diego - will keep the words San and Diesgo together when forming the cloud.

Word:#ff0000 - you can make any single word any color you want. (Requires knowledge of color hex codes)

Printing/Saving/Sharing

Much easier than Wordle, although some options are complicated.

Examples