Inputting the full text (except words like it, the, and and) of the recent General Conference into Wordle created the word cloud shown below. Frequency of use determines word size.
Words from General Conference
by Larry Richman | Oct 20, 2008
Tags: general conference
Categories: General Conference•Technology & Social Media
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Thanks for doing that – I tried, but it kept timing out for me on the notes I was basing it on.
I had the very same idea, but I haven’t gotten to it yet.
Is there a purpose in the shape? Maybe I am too much into symbolism, but it looks like a fish.
Is that the one I created? I like the dark one better.
I also generated a PDF version for the one shown above (I had to re-generate the text, so the words are moved around a bit), and have had several people tell me that they’ve printed it to display in their home somewhere.
Connor,
Sorry, but I don’t remember where I got it. If it was from you, sorry I didn’t give you credit.
Larry
Thanks for posting this.
Thanks. That was pretty as well.
Larry, I commented, but didn’t hit submit until this morning. I, too, liked it enough to print it out to have it.
I tried “wordling” the Book of Mormon. Found a text file on the internet and “wordled” 1 Nephi and 3 Nephi. As you can guess, Nephi is the largest word. Fascinating web site.
i like the dark one better 2. and it does look like a fish. that’s kind of weird.
I tried this yesterday and loved it. I’m planning on “wordleing” my blog. It tried it today and it looks like the website is down.
Really very cool thanks for share
It’s great to show this to friends as another “proof” that the Church isn’t focused solely on Joseph Smith…that out of ~8hrs worth of talks “Lord”, “Jesus”, and “Christ” are in fact most prominent.
Perhaps it’s because grew up Catholic and joined the LDS Church as an adult, but my first impression of the shape was that it was a FOOTPRINT, and made me think of the “Footprints” poem about walking on the beach with the Lord.
Just my $0.02. 🙂
Where did you get the entire text of General Conference in one place? Can I get your file? I want to try to make my own version…
Thanks, this is beautiful
Janet
I just went to the general conference page on LDS.org, opened each talk and copied the text into a single Word file. Sorry, I didn’t keep the file.
I have created a new wordle for this past weekend’s general conference. Image here, PDF version here.
Also check out this linguistic analysis, which I find very interesting.
I think that it looks more like a foot print and by following the spoken words in that word cloud we cant go wrong. Thanks for sharing.