{"id":54,"date":"2012-06-04T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2022-12-17T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T22:02:41","slug":"computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Science &#8211; Birmingham City University &#8211; Word Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d generate another word cloud, so here&#8217;s one for BSc Computer Science at Birmingham City University, the course which I&#8217;m in charge of.<\/p>\n<p>The text for the word cloud was generated by manually taking the text from the four tabs on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcu.ac.uk\/courses\/computer-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official BSc Computer Science course information page<\/a> on the Birmingham City University web site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55\" title=\"Computer Science at Birmingham City University word cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud.jpg\" alt=\"Word cloud showing the BSc Computer Science course at Birmingham City University\" width=\"403\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud.jpg 403w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud-170x87.jpg 170w, https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/computer-science-birmingham-city-university-word-cloud-284x145.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s interesting, as I think that this represents the course and it&#8217;s industrial focus very well, in particular the focus on <strong>software<\/strong> and <strong>systems<\/strong>. Many of the main course areas are prominent. The only word which looks out of place is the word <strong>credits<\/strong>, but that&#8217;s reflects the details of specific modules provided (quite rightfully) on the course information page.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to try this for your course and let me know if the word cloud offers a good representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a word cloud for a BSc Computer Science course.<\/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":[24],"tags":[199,29,200,201,198],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","tag-birmingham-city-university","tag-computer-science-2","tag-software","tag-systems","tag-word-cloud"],"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":2,"uagb_excerpt":"Here's a word cloud for a BSc Computer Science course.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}