Showing posts with label wordle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wordle. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Word clouding President Barack Obama's inaugural speech

That might take some getting used to. Vice President Biden, too.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Word clouding KU's j-school

I saw a cool post on Megan Taylor's blog, exploring j-schools descriptions of their programs. She was inspired to create a wordcloud about the University of Florida's program after seeing something similar on 10,000 Words, which diagrammed programs at Northwestern, CUNY, Berkley, UNC and the Asian College of Journalism.

10,000's Mark Luckie writes:

One of the biggest complaints about modern journalism schools is aren't equipping the next wave of journalists with the skills they need to compete in today's newsrooms. So what are they teaching students? The online course description for several J-schools were run through Wordle.

I decided to see what the University of Kansas' program looks like, in wordle form. Here it is, below, in all its glory. First, the grad program:


















Followed by the undergraduate program description, and undergrad course descriptions: