Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Books You Should Read?

I don't know how much you've worked with word clouds as they are called by the people at wordle, but they are an interesting way to show information. The idea is to give the words or phrases that appeear more frequently greater prominence in the cloud. The word cloud below is a survey of books mentioned in various Top 100 polls. As the author of the cloud says,   

I scraped the results of over 15 notable book polls, readers surveys and top 100's. Both popular and high-brow. They included all Pulitzer Prize winners, Desert Island Discs choices from recent years, Oprah's Bookclub list, and The Guardian's Top 100 Books of All Time. A  simple frequency analysis on the gathered titles gives us a neat 'consensus cloud' visualisation of the most mentioned books titles across the polls.    

Double click on the cloud to get a bigger image.        

How many have you read   



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