8.13.2008

What we're all about


Found a website today that can take a block of text (ie the text in this blog) and make an image that contains the most commonly used words in that text. It sizes the words proportionally to how many times they appear in the text: big words appear a lot, and little words appear a little.

Anyway, I entered the text from the commentators and was interested to see that the results... weren't very interesting. "Tom", "Kate", "Banjo" and "Game" (both the sport and board variety) make unsurprising and prominent appearances, but the majority of the rest of the words are relatively hum-drum and not overly descriptive of our lives. "People", "home", "little", "day", "new", "first", "think", and "back" seem to be popular, as well as "fun", "family", "going", "nice", and "can". And that was AFTER I eliminated many of the most "common English words".

Hooo weeee! Breaking blog news: Tom and Kate think it is a new fun day, but first can we go back to our little home with our nice family-people? Does that really sound like us?

Anyway, click on the image above if you'd like to see the commentators in graphical form...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very cool. I'd like to drag out some of the papers I wrote when I was working at FHI and see what they'd look like.
-Parental Unit

Steve said...
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Steve said...

Speaking of common words:
hard quiz.

Kate said...

I only got 42, which I'm guessing is pretty low. How many did you get, steve?