Tag clouds have gained popularity as a short cut to discovery of frequently occurring terms in a text collection. Much of the inspiration comes from the remarkable Wordle site at http://www.wordle.net. Building on that inspiration, we engineered an interactive word cloud tool in DiscoverText that we call the CloudExplorer. This video is a short introduction to how it works.
Click here to see a 3-minute video on how to use the Cloud Explorer
About Stuart Shulman
Stuart Shulman is a political science professor, software inventor, entrepreneur, and
garlic
growing enthusiast who coaches U13 boys club soccer and in the Olympic Development Program with a national D-license. He is Founder & CEO of Texifter, LLC, Director of
QDAP-UMass, and Editor Emeritus of the
Journal of Information Technology & Politics. Stu is the proud owner of a Bernese/Shepherd named "Colbert" who is much better known as 'Bert. You can follow his exploits
@stuartwshulman.
