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2015 Blog in Review

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As I have done in the past, I took my blog and ran all the text through wordle.net to make a tag cloud based on my word usage. This year seems pretty similar to last year. This does not include any of the blogging I did for Threadless this past year. I did increase the total number of words for the program to look for just to make things look a bit different.

Unless anything changes over the next year, this will probably e the last time I do this for a while since I have clearly made a pattern for myself and future tag clouds wouldn’t look much different than the do now.

You can see the tag cloud I made for last year here:
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Year Three in Review

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It’s that time of year again.

Where I enter in a years worth of blogging into Wordle.net and see a great visual representation of my language use. Now this year the blog is really shaping up. As you can see, design and drawing are getting really large (therefore used the most in my blog) and even more interesting, much of the rest of the words seem pretty similar from year over year. I guess this implies that I must have some sort of writing style.

The other two word clouds can be viewed here, and here for comparison. Enjoy.

One Year Later

In a few short days, I’ll have been blogging for a year. To celebrate, I decided to try and come up with a way to visually represent my blog.

Enter Wordle.net.

Wordle is a little program that analyses text input and creates a “word cloud,” similar to how the the tag cloud feature of many blogs work. The larger the word, the greater it’s frequency in the text. The only difference between Wordle and most blog-style tag-clouds is well… it’s nicer looking, and Wordle is based only on word count, not tag count. So Worldle’s output is not based so much on subject matter than on language use. As you can see, I tend to not use very big words. 🙂

To get the text ready, I exported all of my blog using the standard tools available with a free WordPress account. I then cleared out all the XML crap using a variety of complex search and replace algorithms that would bore just about anyone except for the most masochistic of computer nerds. I then found out afterwards I could have just fed Wordle the RSS feed of my blog, but where’s the fun in that?

Anyways, I’ll have to try and do this every year around this time. It should be interesting to see how my writing style will change over time, and it’s a pretty cool way to represent data that would otherwise be rather boring.