Frankenstein Word Cloud

And, just to compare with the last post, and because I’ve done it for my students, here’s a word cloud of some key passages from Frankenstein, that I used with my Lit students. Note the word in the centre – ‘monster’ – but who is the monster here?

Tagxedo Word Clouds

Last week I talked up ‘Worlde‘ as a great tool for creating word clouds. Well, Tagxedo is described as ‘Wordle on steroids’  Much more customisation and flexibility as well as the much needed ‘export as image’ function. Below is what the first chapter of Jane Austen’s Emma looks like as a word cloud where the most important words are biggest. Miss, Mr, Emma; that’ about sums it up!