My career in Wordles

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I've recently been playing around with Wordle, "a toy for generating word clouds from text." Below are a few examples based on a few of my recent papers, and also my PhD thesis. Each picture is made from the words of the documents, arranged so that the words that I (and my co-authors) used more often come out bigger.

A new paper on the Helmholtz-Kohlrauch effect, called "The Brightness of Colour":

Our paper on lightness illusions, from 2007:

A slightly older paper on information extraction from biomedical text, using a system called 'BioRAT': (click for a larger version)

And finally, my PhD thesis, on food design using various statistical and computational approaches: (click for a larger version)

Now go and play with Wordle yourself! It's quick, easy and fun!