Anybody ever do a DU word cloud?

[Flying Squirrel]

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[NYC_SKP]

1. No, I've only used it for Obama vs Palin, et al, speeches. Interesting.

Please do the DU Lounge, and some of the groups for contrast...

[Divine Discontent]

3. haha! good idea

[NYC_SKP]

4. I know what you're thinking....

It would be hilarious!

[NYC_SKP]

10. Does this work?

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/7205975/Untitled

[Flying Squirrel]

11. Lol let me guess, the Gungeon?

Yep, then you can "Ctrl-Print Scr" and paste it into Paint, save as a PNG or JPG, then upload it to Photobucket or something.

[NYC_SKP]

12. I'm on a macbook air. tried those things.

Yup, gun reform activism group thingalingy.

[Flying Squirrel]

6. Yikes, ok I did the Lounge too

See edit

[NYC_SKP]

13. Yikes! Go do the HOF and the Men's group.

Don't think twice just do it.

DO IT!

[BainsBane]

18. Here is HOF

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and don't you dare say the gun control reform activism group is the gungeon.

[Flying Squirrel]

52. Hmmm the first thing I noticed was the word "apparently"

Apparently that word gets used a lot there

[BainsBane]

53. for an interesting contrast

look at the men's group world image.

[BainsBane]

19. Men's room

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I just noticed my name appears. Sigh. Quite the contrast with HOF.

[NYC_SKP]

30. Well that's just a hot mess.

WTH "harpies"?

And more than a couple DU usernames.

[LisaLynne]

32. Yeah, not really shocking to me. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Not to spoil the fun, but I think when you pull the RSS feed link it only does the thread titles.

Which is interesting, but probably not an accurate indicator of the content of the threads.

[Flying Squirrel]

54. I think it would be way too much work to get the rest of the

content in there. This is fun enough though

[uppityperson]

2. Self-deleted is in there. Where, how, do you do this? It's interesting, thanks

[Flying Squirrel]

9. Oh, ya I tried to remove all the self-deleted and hidden ones but I must have missed a few.

I put GD in order by start time, then copied each page to Excel, then copied all of the "Title of discussion thread" column and pasted it into Wordle:

http://www.wordle.net/create

[BainsBane]

22. I couldn't figure out how to download the image

or save it to photobucket.

[Flying Squirrel]

23. Ctrl-Print Screen to copy

Then paste it into Paint, crop and save as a JPG or PNG, then save and upload to Photobucket.

[BainsBane]

27. Thanks.

Now I know how people post screen shots. I'm not exactly a computer wiz (to state the obvious).

[billh58]

42. You can also just

right-click on the individual blocs and select "save picture as."

[BainsBane]

46. I couldn't get that to happen

I did try. That's my usual way of downloading stuff.

[billh58]

64. Sorry about that

but it worked for me. I'm running a PC with WIN7.

[BainsBane]

67. same

but I must have the Luddite version.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. this is great. please direct me to a link...I've wanted to do this on another project

I am just glad drone and nsa were nowhere near the biggest.

[Flying Squirrel]

7. http://www.wordle.net/create

Lots of fun

[Pretzel_Warrior]

8. gracias

[ctsnowman]

44. Thanks for the link.

[longship]

14. Glad you included the Lounge.

But there's no LOLCats! Must have missed them. However, as Halloween is the most prevalent word, how does one know this isn't the Politics 2013 Forum?


R&K

[TexasTowelie]

20. I was thinking the exact same thing--what no LOLCats!

The cloud was completely skewed and I protest not only for missing the "LOLCats", but also because there is no catnip!!!

[Warren DeMontague]

15. You can do 'em with the posts and journals of individual posters, too!

Great way to figure out which instruments in the orchestra are only capable of playing one note.

[JDPriestly]

16. How do you do it?

How do you generate that cloud thing?

Is it something to do with I-Tunes? Can you do it on a PC?

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Go to the link in post #7.

It helps if you can capture a bunch of text to put in the window. Some parts of DU have a button at the top that says "RSS Feed" and you can use the link you get when you click that, too, instead.

[BainsBane]

21. Yep, I'm one note, or 1.25 note

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You can't do a journal feed but you can paste the text. This is the first page of mine. I'm one and a quarter note.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. However, I don't believe you actually talk about yourself that much.

I did like the first 3 pages, because I have a lot of pictures in there.

I'm anal so I went through with the text and pulled out "Warren" and "Demontague" and "posted"... tried to get all the months and times, but missed a few.


Verily, 'tis a thing of beauty. Apparently I swear alot.

[BainsBane]

26. No, I talk about guns

Or at least that's the vast majority of what I save to my journal. I just figured out how to upload the pictures on here so edited the posts. On request, I did HOF and the men's group above.

I don't think editing out words is exactly Kosher.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. My point on editing out words being, if you copy the text straight from the journal page,

you're going to get a lot of "Posted by Warren Demontague" (or in your case, Bainsbane) along with dates and times, all of which is sort of extraneous to the actual content of the journal.

At least, the way I did it. I just went through and Ctrl-C'd the whole thing.

[BainsBane]

28. three pages didn't make a lot of difference

despite the wider variety of topics.

[NYC_SKP]

31. I really like the colors, font, and composition of this one. (nt)

[LisaLynne]

33. It looks like a whale!

[BainsBane]

39. each time you select randomize

It gives you a slightly different font and layout.

[Flying Squirrel]

51. You can select font, orientation, and roundness of

the cloud, and colors - once you have it kind of how you like it, you can have it keep re-drawing with those parameters till it's the way you want it.

[klook]

41. More Yes than No.

About the same amount of Crap and Shit. Is this a word cloud of my life??

[Warren DeMontague]

43. you an' me both.

you an' me, both.

[BainsBane]

47. My name turns up in large print

because it's my journal and each post lists my name. You'll notice posted and replies are also prominent.

[Warren DeMontague]

62. Right, that was why I put it in a text window and removed all the instances of mine.

But like I said, I probably put too much thought into it.

[cyberswede]

55. I like that "shit" and "Shit" have some prominence.

...and the tiny but noticable "useless-os-it-ty" LOL!

[Warren DeMontague]

61. I guess I must have capitalized it.

[cyberswede]

66. I just thought it was funny that the cloud thingie differentiates between the two

...and it was funny that "shit" was fairly prominent (regardless if capitalization).

[Warren DeMontague]

68. It would have been twice as big if it hadn't been split into two instances!

Christ, I know, like a fucking sailor, I am.

[LisaLynne]

34. The Lounge likes tuna.

A lot.

[pinboy3niner]

36. Very finny

The Lounge cod use some culinary help from Cooking & Baking.

[RandiFan1290]

35. So sad to see "gop" so big.

That republicon media marketing machine at work!

[Flying Squirrel]

56. Partially...

But partially just the news business saving space as it is used to doing. Why use two word "Republican Party" when "GOP" will do. They probably wish we had a nice little abbreviated term for our party as well.. maybe I'll post a thread and we can come up with one

[pinboy3niner]

37. Cooking & Baking Group...

[KoKo]

38. DINNER...Recipe....beans & soup..Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday...

That captures it....! What the heck can I make tonight!... Austerity...Beans & Soup..potatoes..a little cheese.

[Octafish]

40. First page of my journal...Thanks, Flying Squirrel!

[Flying Squirrel]

60. How did you get such a tall cloud?

Did you make them all vertical and then rotate it in Paint?

[Octafish]

63. After the first download, I asked for it to 'Randomize'...

...That transformed the words from a flush-up (or flush-right, moving them towards the top of the page).

I then copied the image into Photoshop and flipped the canvas 90-degrees.

[LaydeeBug]

45. I am disappointed the word TEABAGGER doesn't seem to be there. nt

[Flying Squirrel]

57. Probably in replies

Which was a bit much to try and capture.

[MineralMan]

48. Here's one from a recent OP of mine:

[Flying Squirrel]

59. I had to turn that one on its side

Worked better for me that way

[Cobalt Violet]

49. No poverty or minimum wage.

The corporatist terrorists have won.

[Flying Squirrel]

58. No, they will never win

until the other side gives up, which we never will.

[malaise]

50. Very cool

Rec

[Aldo Leopold]

65. Wow that's really cool!

Wish I knew how to do like that!

[Voice for Peace]

69. I see "Just Party" as the outstanding message

[Flying Squirrel]

70. Lol... no, that's probably "Tea Party"

I think "Just" appears a lot because people post about things that "Just happened"