With the help of a good intern, we took the words and ideas from the papers and put them in a spreadsheet. We took that data and used Wordle, a web based tool for generating word clouds, to create this image. Word clouds are used to quickly indicate the most commonly used words in a block of text – the bigger the word, the more frequently it was used.
Each table has their own word cloud (the smaller ones). The 200 most frequently recorded words from all tables are in the larger cloud in the center.
There are many ways to think about words, ideas, and data. This is just one – what do you think?