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Here is a simple application to transform text into a beautiful word cloud, Text Mining to WordCloud. The purpose is to find out the highest frequency word in a certain text. It is an app built with R language, the source code is attached at the end of... [Read more...]

A couple of weeks ago I saw a great example of an open learning blogpost from @katy_bird: Generating a word cloud (or not) from a Twitter hashtag. It described the trials and tribulations associated with trying to satisfy a request for the generation of a wordcloud based on tweets ... [Read more...]

I wrote a quick (and very dirty) R script for creating a comparison cloud and a commonality cloud for President Obama’s 2011 and 2012 State of the Union speeches*. The cloud on the left shows words that have different frequencies between the two spe... [Read more...]

I have been working on a new package makeR to help manage Sweave projects where you wish to create multiple versions of documents that are based on a single source. For example, I create lots of monthly and quarterly reports using Sweave and the only differences between versions are a ... [Read more...]