Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Word cloud idea for 7701 Journal Review Project

This cloud represents the words I pulled from my review of just one issue of just one journal. The bigger the word, the greater the focus that word was given in that one issue.

I was thinking that we could possibly present TWO clouds to show how the topics covered by our TPC journals have shifted over the years: a word cloud that represents the topics for the first six issues of BOTH journals and a cloud that represents the second six issues of both journals, to show the shift over time.

I could also do a cloud that shows a comparison by journal, so that the first cloud represents 12 articles for one journal, the second cloud 12 articles for the other.

What do you guys think? THIS is the kind of information I wanted to glean from the reports ... and a cloud gives us a way to share that information visually. I'm not sure how this will post on BB though. But I could do a screen capture to take an image of the cloud and we could simply include the image in the document

--Renae

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