http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa Data Visualization Researcher Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en T.S. Eliot reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" while OpenWordle visualizes his words. http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/2009/11/the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock/ Here's something neat you can do with OpenWordle: It starts with a stream of words; in this case it's Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" lyrics. (I chose it for the repetition and from remembering this interpretation.) The stream is tokenized but not reduced; this means duplicate words are included ... http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/2009/11/dynamic-openwordle/ Since the Wordle layout algorithm was described in an InfoVis paper last October, I tried my hand at implementing it in Processing. Here is the result: I made changes to the algorithm which resulted in more flexibility to add features like Unicode fonts and arbitrary text area confinement. I call this ... http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/2009/11/introducing-openwordle/ Back when I was a college freshman, there was an uproar caused by Avril Lavigne's debut. She branded herself and her music as "punk," an image that teenagers bought into. But the older punk veterans detested the label and decried her music as "pop" and herself as a fraud. For ... http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/2009/09/a-complicated-definition/