stylecloud
Languages and libraries
python package
SHOW HN2019
112points
16comments
#428of 2,195 in 2019
Top 20%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.13.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive and cool-looking output
From 4 comments
That looks really cool! A while ago I tried to write some wordcloud code, but couldn't quite figure out how to do the layout. Does anyone know where one might find a good writeup…
paultopia on HNBeautiful! Thank you for creating and sharing this! :)
chrisweekly on HNVery impressive! Well done!
calmworm on HNSuper awesome. I just tried Obama's inaugural speech as Linkedin Icon - https://github.com/amrrs/stylecloud-demo/blob/master/obama_speech_linkedin.PNG It came out very well!
amrrs on HN
Objections
Word clouds are a useless or decorative data presentation
From 3 comments
I believe word clouds are one of the most useless presentations of data that are widely used
klysm on HNI wrote a paper about word clouds for my Information Retrieval class when I was in Library School, when word clouds were still a trendy and popular content browsing UI. I…
meej on HNThis is a great tool! Ironically, I might use it someday to illustrate why word clouds are an absurd format. But it'll be great for joking around too :)
danso on HN
Name 'stylistic' is questioned as a word choice
From 2 comments
Presumably this person means "stylish," not "stylistic"?
foobarbecue on HNI know what the word means, and I don't see how it could possibly make sense here. If he doesn't mean stylish, he might mean stylized. What could "word clouds pertaining to…
foobarbecue on HN
Questions
Where to find a good writeup of word cloud layout algorithms
From 1 comment
That looks really cool! A while ago I tried to write some wordcloud code, but couldn't quite figure out how to do the layout. Does anyone know where one might find a good writeup…
paultopia on HN
Alternatives named
word_cloud library by amueller
From 1 comment
The library used by the submitted package seems to be well-documented: https://github.com/amueller/word_cloud
danso on HN
Wordle
From 1 comment
This stackoverflow answer from the creator of Wordle links to a free chapter from a book that describes the way Wordle does it:…
lgas on HN
WordCram
From 1 comment
You might look through the source code for Wordcram[1]. It is built under Processing, and is relatively easy to understand, I think. [1] http://wordcram.org/
dwyerm on HN