Friday, April 29, 2011

Wordle Again

I mentioned Wordle.net a while back. It's a way to create 'word clouds' from text. It occurred to me this afternoon that it would be neat to put course descriptions in from the catalog for each major. I tried a couple of them, shown below.


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