A WordCloud Visual of LW Main

Am I just failing to find it, or is "evidence" conspicuously missing?

This is super cool and might fly on the front page.

I would also like to see word clouds for other sets: Harry Potter and, the Hanson-Yudkowsky FOOM debate sequence, &c. Perhaps I will make a couple and post them here.

[-]Normal_Anomaly14y10

Here is one of chapters 10-15 of Methods of Rationality.

[-]XFrequentist14y40

Far right dead center: "Olivola"

???

[-]AdeleneDawner14y10

Search says it has to be from a citation here, which clarifies very little.

[-]XFrequentist14y10

I saw that; it seems to be a single citation. Why would that particular author be emphasized in the cloud above the many many others? Weird.

[-][anonymous]14y20

I'm somewhat surprised that there isn't a giant 'akrasia' in the middle of all that, but oh well.

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[-]printing-spoon14y20

Is there a way to disable vertical words? It unfairly de-emphasizes half of the cloud.

[-]r_claypool14y10

Yes, that's one of the layout options on the Wordle website.

[-]The Dao of Bayes14y20

This is very pretty. Seconded on the idea that this might fly on the front page.

[-]Alexandros14y10

What tool was used to make this? You should try it with more promoted articles. The feed in the link contains the last 24 ( http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/feed/http://lesswrong.com/promoted/.rss?n=24 )

[-]Paul Crowley14y80

Done!

[-]komponisto14y40

"Singularity people money happiness".... oh dear!

(No hiding the "agenda" there!)

:-)

In all seriousness, however, the image is not an unpleasant one.

[-]Alexandros14y10

huh. Seems like not much change.

[-]atucker14y20

I tried it with 500 too, and its pretty much the same.

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3886796/LW500

[-]dbaupp14y20

It looks a lot like wordle.

[-]Manfred14y10

Speaking of money, money money money money.

[-]multifoliaterose14y10

Thanks very much for making this; I agree that the the image is positive and inspiring.

[-]r_claypool14y00

Rationalists here are not so cold-hearted after all. ;-)

[-]steven046114y90

It mostly just reflects that 2 out of the last 3 posts happened to be about philanthropy, though, right?

[-]Normal_Anomaly14y30

Well, when that ceases to be the case at least "money" won't be so big.

[-]r_claypool14y10

right

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