![]() ![]() Use them with caution, however, as they never substitute for analysis, and can potentially detract from important themes. Lesson Learned: Word clouds can be fun and have a number of appropriate applications. Tagxedo can also use custom fonts from popular font sites. ![]() Tagxedo is best known for its shapes, allowing you to choose from a bank of available shapes that can help you illustrate a point. Wordle allows you to choose directionality – whether you want all text horizontal, all vertical, or some mix of the two. Since I’m familiar with two word cloud generators, I tried each of them.īoth generators allow for some creativity with regard to color, and font. As I thought about what topic to tackle for this week’s post, I wondered what insights a word cloud created from the text of the Declaration of Independence might yield. ![]() It’s Independence Day in the US, the anniversary of the day our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain was signed in 1776. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. ![]()
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