A tag cloud is a visual presentation of text. It uses word frequency to provide a blink-worthy read of information. It communicates a great deal in a few seconds and provides an instant take.
I entered the text of our mission and description et voila! A poetic distillation of meaning.
Made using TagCrowd created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University.
Poetic distillation?
I tried the application on another text. The seventy word tag cloud is below. Can you guess which text?
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