{"id":49,"date":"2012-06-04T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2022-12-17T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T22:02:15","slug":"a-quick-way-to-jazz-up-presentations-with-word-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/a-quick-way-to-jazz-up-presentations-with-word-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Way To Jazz Up Presentations With Word Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick way to jazz up presentations and to offer a talking point.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s to generate a word cloud for an appropriate site, which you can do easily using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/create\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wordle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just type in a url, or copy in a section of text, and Wordle will generate a well-formatted tag cloud showing the most terms on that site (excluding English language filler words). It&#8217;s interesting, as they&#8217;re often not the terms that you expect to be used most.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tag cloud for my main site at <a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-word-cloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50\" title=\"Thomas Lancaster Word Cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-word-cloud.jpg\" alt=\"Word Cloud For ThomasLancaster.co.uk\" width=\"407\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-word-cloud.jpg 407w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-word-cloud-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-word-cloud-170x101.jpg 170w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-word-cloud-284x169.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a>Interesting that the word <strong>research<\/strong> dominates <strong>teaching<\/strong>. It feels the other way around. I&#8217;m gla to note that <strong>students<\/strong> is prominent.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tag cloud for this blog&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-blog-word-cloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51\" title=\"Thomas Lancaster Blog Word Cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-blog-word-cloud.jpg\" alt=\"A word cloud for Thomas Lancaster's blog\" width=\"408\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-blog-word-cloud.jpg 408w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-blog-word-cloud-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-blog-word-cloud-170x80.jpg 170w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/thomas-lancaster-blog-word-cloud-284x134.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a>I think this one is more coincidental based on the topics I&#8217;ve been promoting. It doesn&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;ve written a lot about <strong>search<\/strong>. I&#8217;ll have to regenerate it when there are a few most posts on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these are up-to-date at the time of processing, of course.<\/p>\n<p>You can play around with these a lot to change the layout style and formatting, but I&#8217;ve found that even the randomised default settings will give you an interesting slide to include in a presentation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you had any luck using word clouds?<\/strong> Just reply below and share your experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick way to jazz up presentations and to offer a talking point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[22,6,23],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-presentations","tag-teaching","tag-word-clouds"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Here's a quick way to jazz up presentations and to offer a talking point.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}