This document provides 101 ways to use Tagxedo, a word cloud generator. It begins with an introduction explaining what Tagxedo is and noting that there are many more uses than the 101 listed. It then outlines basic, intermediate, and advanced Tagxedo skills. The rest of the document provides examples of unique ways to use Tagxedo, such as to summarize presentations, compare documents, make movie reviews, turn logos into word clouds, and more.
This document provides 101 ways to use Tagxedo, a tool for creating word clouds or tag clouds from text. It begins with a brief introduction about Tagxedo and discusses basic, intermediate, and advanced Tagxedo skills. The majority of the document then lists and describes 101 unique ways that Tagxedo can be used, ranging from summarizing presentations to critiquing resumes to decorating with Tagxedo art.
Subject matter experts usually have loads of course available to them. But before cthis content can be uploaded onto the LMS, a few issues three "course content consideration" issues require attention. This presentation introduces the viewer to copyright, file types and style.
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52 ways to use Wordle in the classroom are presented. Some ideas include having students write about themselves and display the results in Wordle clouds, creating book quizzes by pasting book texts into Wordle, and using Wordle to share criteria or expectations for assignments. Wordle can also be used to analyze speeches, define vocabulary terms, compare themes in literature, and more. The document provides many creative ideas for incorporating the free online Wordle tool into classroom lessons and activities across subjects.
Elements of visual design for language learnersC Romney
This document summarizes Cameron Romney's presentation on elements of visual design for language learners. The presentation covered typography, page layout, and graphics. For typography, it discussed concepts like typeface, font, legibility vs readability, and recommended typefaces. For page layout, it recommended using multiple columns with shorter lines, increased line spacing, white space, and lines/shapes to organize the page. For graphics, it discussed using images only if they serve an instructional purpose, using as few graphics as possible, and placing graphics next to the corresponding text. The presentation provided research and theories to support best practices in visual design.
This document discusses exploring the qualities of good and bad friendships and different types of peer pressure. It provides discussion questions about the qualities students look for in friends, whether good friends can have both good and bad qualities, and ways friends may pressure each other to do things against their beliefs or values. Examples of peer pressure situations are given, such as a friend pressuring someone to exclude another person or pressure to smoke cigarettes or carry an illegal phone.
This document provides 101 ways to use Tagxedo, a tool for creating word clouds with images. It begins with basic uses like customizing colors and fonts. Intermediate uses include adding custom shapes and adjusting options. Advanced uses involve custom fonts and shapes. Examples are given for many uses like summarizing texts, reviewing movies, advertising products, and more. The goal is to inspire new ways of creating visual representations with words.
This document provides guidance on creating movie posters, including recommendations to include key elements like the title, actors' names, a large image, tagline, credit block, and release date. It also suggests using Publisher or Word to design the poster, positioning a photo to cover the page, making the title in WordArt for easy resizing, and adding other elements like the actors' names, release date, and tagline in bold, clear WordArt. The poster should showcase conventions of teen movies and have visual impact.
This document provides 101 ways to use Tagxedo, a tool for creating word clouds or tag clouds from text. It begins with a brief introduction about Tagxedo and discusses basic, intermediate, and advanced Tagxedo skills. The majority of the document then lists and describes 101 unique ways that Tagxedo can be used, ranging from summarizing presentations to critiquing resumes to decorating with Tagxedo art.
Subject matter experts usually have loads of course available to them. But before cthis content can be uploaded onto the LMS, a few issues three "course content consideration" issues require attention. This presentation introduces the viewer to copyright, file types and style.
52 Interesting Ways to use Wordle in the ClassroomPastor Randy Lee
52 ways to use Wordle in the classroom are presented. Some ideas include having students write about themselves and display the results in Wordle clouds, creating book quizzes by pasting book texts into Wordle, and using Wordle to share criteria or expectations for assignments. Wordle can also be used to analyze speeches, define vocabulary terms, compare themes in literature, and more. The document provides many creative ideas for incorporating the free online Wordle tool into classroom lessons and activities across subjects.
Elements of visual design for language learnersC Romney
This document summarizes Cameron Romney's presentation on elements of visual design for language learners. The presentation covered typography, page layout, and graphics. For typography, it discussed concepts like typeface, font, legibility vs readability, and recommended typefaces. For page layout, it recommended using multiple columns with shorter lines, increased line spacing, white space, and lines/shapes to organize the page. For graphics, it discussed using images only if they serve an instructional purpose, using as few graphics as possible, and placing graphics next to the corresponding text. The presentation provided research and theories to support best practices in visual design.
This document discusses exploring the qualities of good and bad friendships and different types of peer pressure. It provides discussion questions about the qualities students look for in friends, whether good friends can have both good and bad qualities, and ways friends may pressure each other to do things against their beliefs or values. Examples of peer pressure situations are given, such as a friend pressuring someone to exclude another person or pressure to smoke cigarettes or carry an illegal phone.
This document provides 101 ways to use Tagxedo, a tool for creating word clouds with images. It begins with basic uses like customizing colors and fonts. Intermediate uses include adding custom shapes and adjusting options. Advanced uses involve custom fonts and shapes. Examples are given for many uses like summarizing texts, reviewing movies, advertising products, and more. The goal is to inspire new ways of creating visual representations with words.
This document provides guidance on creating movie posters, including recommendations to include key elements like the title, actors' names, a large image, tagline, credit block, and release date. It also suggests using Publisher or Word to design the poster, positioning a photo to cover the page, making the title in WordArt for easy resizing, and adding other elements like the actors' names, release date, and tagline in bold, clear WordArt. The poster should showcase conventions of teen movies and have visual impact.
This document provides graphic design tips for PowerPoint presentations and online courses. It discusses using meaningful titles, legible text through proper formatting and color contrast, relevant and labeled images and charts, limited special effects, and a consistent overall format. Key tips include limiting text per slide, aligning bulleted lists, avoiding awkward line breaks, proper font styles and sizes, high contrast background and text colors, and thoroughly proofreading the presentation.
best practices for researching your presentationssuser76e9ea
This document provides best practices for creating a successful research presentation. It discusses preparing the presentation by knowing the audience and purpose, as well as general outlines for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. It also covers preparing to present through practicing and feedback, as well as aesthetics like slide organization, fonts, colors, backgrounds, charts and graphs. The key points are to motivate the audience, state results simply, illustrate ideas visually, and leave the audience wanting to learn more about the research.
Welcome Back to Elementary Class - Gamification Activities by Slidesgo.pptxIsabelMuozPintos
This presentation template provides resources for elementary school gamification activities, including:
- Graphic resources like illustrations, icons, and infographics that can be used and customized.
- Interactive elements like games, puzzles, and assignments to engage students.
- Instructions for teachers on customizing the template by modifying colors, fonts, slides, and credits.
This document provides many ways that Wordle, a graphic representation of frequently used words, can be used in the classroom. It lists ideas such as creating Wordles for teacher appreciation, book characters, classroom rules, and more. It also gives tips for customizing Wordles by emphasizing certain words or grouping words. Web links are provided for Wordle creation tools and examples of other Wordle lesson ideas. The document encourages contacting the author for more Wordle resources and sharing ideas.
Editing Schmediting! Who needs it? You do!
Here's one editor's secrets to edit manuscripts that sing. It covers:
• Up-front questions to ask an editor
• Preparing your MS for an editor
• Better use of your tools for editing
• Self-editing tips
* Edits for compelling writing
Created by Book Shepherd Ann Videan, a professional editor, author, illustrator, and composer based in the Phoenix Metro area.
This document provides many ways that the website Wordle can be used in the classroom. Wordle allows users to create a graphic representation of words used in a text by making frequently used words appear larger. Some suggested uses are to have students make Wordles of speeches, class rules, book characters, or to review vocabulary. Wordles can be printed or used on mugs, posters or other gifts. Additional effects can be added by using graphics software. Other blogs and websites provide more Wordle project ideas.
This document discusses three free online word cloud creation sites: Wordle, ABCYA, and Tagxedo. Wordle allows users to input text and generate a word cloud where the frequency of words is represented by font size. Tagxedo also generates word clouds but allows users to choose different shapes instead of just clouds. The document provides instructions on how to use the features of each site to create, customize, save and share word clouds.
PowerPoint Design 202 (intermediate level), a workshop I presented in January 2014. Useful for business, consulting, sales, marketing, and case competition presentations.
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This document provides instructions for using an educational presentation template from Slidesgo. It includes 1) a slide structure that can be adapted for different needs, 2) illustrations that can be used in the presentation, and 3) slides with fonts, colors, illustrations and icons that can be customized. The template must keep a thanks slide to properly credit Slidesgo.
This document provides guidance on writing an assignment, including preparation, structure, and formatting. It recommends the following steps:
1. Prepare by looking at the assignment questions to understand what is required, mind mapping points, and making a plan for arguments and their order.
2. The introduction should set the scene and outline main points.
3. The middle should develop each point with evidence from sources cited using the PEE method of introducing a point, providing evidence, and explaining its importance.
4. The conclusion should summarize the points without introducing new ideas and end with a final statement.
It also provides tips on research, formatting, word counts, asking for help, and using Harvard referencing
This document outlines the requirements for a PowerPoint presentation assignment where students will create a presentation titled "All About Me". The presentation must have at least 15 content slides describing aspects of the student's life and background. It must follow specific formatting guidelines including using different slide layouts, including a family tree chart and photos. Students will present their presentation to the class and be graded based on various criteria such as meeting requirements, appearance, and presentation skills. A grading rubric is provided to evaluate various elements of the presentations.
The document provides instructions and resources for a presentation template on food and drink vocabulary in Spanish, including fonts, colors, illustrations, and instructions for both free and premium users on how to use and credit the template. It also includes examples of activities that can be used in the presentation, such as describing pictures, matching opposites, story building, and a treasure hunt game.
The document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations:
- Limit each slide to one main idea with bullet points to reinforce the speaker's message. Keep bullets brief and use consistent formatting.
- Use readable fonts, font sizes, and high-contrast color combinations. Avoid small text, all caps, flashing animations or multiple backgrounds that distract from the content.
- Include charts and graphics only if they clearly support the topic in an easy-to-understand format. The presentation should enhance the speaker's message, not replace it.
The document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations:
- Limit each slide to one main idea with bullet points to reinforce the speaker's message. Keep bullet points brief using only a few words.
- Use consistent formatting across slides such as fonts, backgrounds, and placement of text/images. Avoid distracting animations or multiple backgrounds.
- Ensure readability of slides from any distance by using large, clear fonts in high contrast with the background color. Avoid small or decorative fonts.
The document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations:
- Limit each slide to one main idea with bullet points to reinforce the speaker's message. Keep bullets brief and use consistent formatting.
- Use readable fonts, font sizes, and high-contrast color combinations. Avoid small text, all caps, flashing animations or multiple backgrounds that distract from the content.
- Include charts and graphs only if they clearly convey information. Ensure they are large enough to be read from the back of a room.
- Remember that the presentation enhances the speaker, not replaces them. Avoid reading slides verbatim.
The document discusses using word clouds in the classroom. It explains that a word cloud is a visual representation of text where the most frequent words appear largest. It recommends the website Wordle.net for creating word clouds and provides tips on customizing fonts, colors, and layouts. The document then gives many ideas for classroom activities using word clouds, such as writing stories, finding synonyms and antonyms, identifying parts of speech, revising song lyrics, and more.
The document discusses various punctuation marks used in English grammar and writing. It defines punctuation marks as symbols used to divide text into phrases and sentences and express feelings. It then provides details on common punctuation marks like periods, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, colons, semicolons, quotes, parentheses, brackets, hyphens, en dashes, and slashes. For each punctuation mark, it explains their proper usage and provides examples.
This document describes a tablet app called "Handouts" that aims to digitize classroom workflows by enabling the creation, distribution, annotation, collection, grading, tracking, and sharing of educational materials. It discusses how Handouts addresses the inefficiencies of physical paper handouts and allows teachers and students to access and complete assignments digitally. Metrics are provided on the growing adoption of Handouts in schools across the US since its launch in July.
The document outlines goals for the 2009-2010 school year to achieve an exemplary public school system with no excuses where all children will be exemplary and able to attend college. It includes bullet points listing strategies and initiatives related to improving schools and student outcomes.
This document provides graphic design tips for PowerPoint presentations and online courses. It discusses using meaningful titles, legible text through proper formatting and color contrast, relevant and labeled images and charts, limited special effects, and a consistent overall format. Key tips include limiting text per slide, aligning bulleted lists, avoiding awkward line breaks, proper font styles and sizes, high contrast background and text colors, and thoroughly proofreading the presentation.
best practices for researching your presentationssuser76e9ea
This document provides best practices for creating a successful research presentation. It discusses preparing the presentation by knowing the audience and purpose, as well as general outlines for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. It also covers preparing to present through practicing and feedback, as well as aesthetics like slide organization, fonts, colors, backgrounds, charts and graphs. The key points are to motivate the audience, state results simply, illustrate ideas visually, and leave the audience wanting to learn more about the research.
Welcome Back to Elementary Class - Gamification Activities by Slidesgo.pptxIsabelMuozPintos
This presentation template provides resources for elementary school gamification activities, including:
- Graphic resources like illustrations, icons, and infographics that can be used and customized.
- Interactive elements like games, puzzles, and assignments to engage students.
- Instructions for teachers on customizing the template by modifying colors, fonts, slides, and credits.
This document provides many ways that Wordle, a graphic representation of frequently used words, can be used in the classroom. It lists ideas such as creating Wordles for teacher appreciation, book characters, classroom rules, and more. It also gives tips for customizing Wordles by emphasizing certain words or grouping words. Web links are provided for Wordle creation tools and examples of other Wordle lesson ideas. The document encourages contacting the author for more Wordle resources and sharing ideas.
Editing Schmediting! Who needs it? You do!
Here's one editor's secrets to edit manuscripts that sing. It covers:
• Up-front questions to ask an editor
• Preparing your MS for an editor
• Better use of your tools for editing
• Self-editing tips
* Edits for compelling writing
Created by Book Shepherd Ann Videan, a professional editor, author, illustrator, and composer based in the Phoenix Metro area.
This document provides many ways that the website Wordle can be used in the classroom. Wordle allows users to create a graphic representation of words used in a text by making frequently used words appear larger. Some suggested uses are to have students make Wordles of speeches, class rules, book characters, or to review vocabulary. Wordles can be printed or used on mugs, posters or other gifts. Additional effects can be added by using graphics software. Other blogs and websites provide more Wordle project ideas.
This document discusses three free online word cloud creation sites: Wordle, ABCYA, and Tagxedo. Wordle allows users to input text and generate a word cloud where the frequency of words is represented by font size. Tagxedo also generates word clouds but allows users to choose different shapes instead of just clouds. The document provides instructions on how to use the features of each site to create, customize, save and share word clouds.
PowerPoint Design 202 (intermediate level), a workshop I presented in January 2014. Useful for business, consulting, sales, marketing, and case competition presentations.
Bmc english language_composition(situationalwriting)_articles_slideshareAdrian Peeris
This document provides guidance on writing articles for the English Paper 1 examination in Singapore. It defines what an article is, identifies the typical approaches and format of articles. It notes that articles for this exam should be 180-250 words. The document discusses generating ideas in pairs, the general characteristics of articles, common subject matters, and a recap of key points. It then provides steps for planning and writing an article, including choosing a title, format, using interesting language, writing in paragraphs, and including linking words.
This document provides instructions for using an educational presentation template from Slidesgo. It includes 1) a slide structure that can be adapted for different needs, 2) illustrations that can be used in the presentation, and 3) slides with fonts, colors, illustrations and icons that can be customized. The template must keep a thanks slide to properly credit Slidesgo.
This document provides guidance on writing an assignment, including preparation, structure, and formatting. It recommends the following steps:
1. Prepare by looking at the assignment questions to understand what is required, mind mapping points, and making a plan for arguments and their order.
2. The introduction should set the scene and outline main points.
3. The middle should develop each point with evidence from sources cited using the PEE method of introducing a point, providing evidence, and explaining its importance.
4. The conclusion should summarize the points without introducing new ideas and end with a final statement.
It also provides tips on research, formatting, word counts, asking for help, and using Harvard referencing
This document outlines the requirements for a PowerPoint presentation assignment where students will create a presentation titled "All About Me". The presentation must have at least 15 content slides describing aspects of the student's life and background. It must follow specific formatting guidelines including using different slide layouts, including a family tree chart and photos. Students will present their presentation to the class and be graded based on various criteria such as meeting requirements, appearance, and presentation skills. A grading rubric is provided to evaluate various elements of the presentations.
The document provides instructions and resources for a presentation template on food and drink vocabulary in Spanish, including fonts, colors, illustrations, and instructions for both free and premium users on how to use and credit the template. It also includes examples of activities that can be used in the presentation, such as describing pictures, matching opposites, story building, and a treasure hunt game.
The document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations:
- Limit each slide to one main idea with bullet points to reinforce the speaker's message. Keep bullets brief and use consistent formatting.
- Use readable fonts, font sizes, and high-contrast color combinations. Avoid small text, all caps, flashing animations or multiple backgrounds that distract from the content.
- Include charts and graphics only if they clearly support the topic in an easy-to-understand format. The presentation should enhance the speaker's message, not replace it.
The document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations:
- Limit each slide to one main idea with bullet points to reinforce the speaker's message. Keep bullet points brief using only a few words.
- Use consistent formatting across slides such as fonts, backgrounds, and placement of text/images. Avoid distracting animations or multiple backgrounds.
- Ensure readability of slides from any distance by using large, clear fonts in high contrast with the background color. Avoid small or decorative fonts.
The document provides guidelines for creating effective PowerPoint presentations:
- Limit each slide to one main idea with bullet points to reinforce the speaker's message. Keep bullets brief and use consistent formatting.
- Use readable fonts, font sizes, and high-contrast color combinations. Avoid small text, all caps, flashing animations or multiple backgrounds that distract from the content.
- Include charts and graphs only if they clearly convey information. Ensure they are large enough to be read from the back of a room.
- Remember that the presentation enhances the speaker, not replaces them. Avoid reading slides verbatim.
The document discusses using word clouds in the classroom. It explains that a word cloud is a visual representation of text where the most frequent words appear largest. It recommends the website Wordle.net for creating word clouds and provides tips on customizing fonts, colors, and layouts. The document then gives many ideas for classroom activities using word clouds, such as writing stories, finding synonyms and antonyms, identifying parts of speech, revising song lyrics, and more.
The document discusses various punctuation marks used in English grammar and writing. It defines punctuation marks as symbols used to divide text into phrases and sentences and express feelings. It then provides details on common punctuation marks like periods, commas, question marks, exclamation marks, colons, semicolons, quotes, parentheses, brackets, hyphens, en dashes, and slashes. For each punctuation mark, it explains their proper usage and provides examples.
This document describes a tablet app called "Handouts" that aims to digitize classroom workflows by enabling the creation, distribution, annotation, collection, grading, tracking, and sharing of educational materials. It discusses how Handouts addresses the inefficiencies of physical paper handouts and allows teachers and students to access and complete assignments digitally. Metrics are provided on the growing adoption of Handouts in schools across the US since its launch in July.
The document outlines goals for the 2009-2010 school year to achieve an exemplary public school system with no excuses where all children will be exemplary and able to attend college. It includes bullet points listing strategies and initiatives related to improving schools and student outcomes.
This document discusses the importance of evaluating websites and provides criteria for doing so. It recommends evaluating websites by considering the 5 W's: who wrote the site, what is the purpose of the site, when was it created and last updated, where does the information come from, and why is the information useful. Specific questions are provided under each W to help guide the evaluation process.
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The document provides instructions for creating a Destiny account to access an online library catalog and manage accounts. It outlines the following steps: 1) Open the Destiny application and click "Create Account"; 2) Enter your last name, student ID number, and birthdate; 3) Choose a username, password, and email address. Once complete, the new account can be used to check out books, view due dates, submit reviews, and manage reading lists.
The document provides instructions for creating a Destiny account to access an online library catalog and manage library resources. It outlines the following steps: 1) Open the Destiny application and click "Create Account"; 2) Enter your last name, student ID number, and birthdate; 3) Choose a username, password, and email address; 4) Complete the registration to access account features like viewing checkouts, renewing books, and submitting book reviews.
The document provides tips for writing effective book blurbs in 3 sentences or less:
Keep blurbs short between 100-250 words, set the mood and conflict without spoilers, and use action verbs and minimal adjectives/adverbs to intrigue readers and make them want to know more about the book. Study other successful blurbs and rewrite your own blurb multiple times using a dramatic movie trailer voice.
The document provides tips for writing effective book blurbs in 3 sentences or less:
Keep blurbs short between 100-250 words, set the mood and conflict without spoilers, and build tension throughout with hints of threat. Include an exciting angle and use action verbs while avoiding adverbs and adjectives to intrigue readers into learning more without revealing the whole story. Rewrite blurbs multiple times while studying examples and reading aloud with a dramatic voice to capture an alluring tone that sells the book.
This document outlines the expectations, procedures, and arrangements for the Idea Public Schools Libraries. It details the rules for entering and exiting the library, respecting others and their materials. Students can check out up to two books at a time, must return books to the drop box, and are responsible for any damaged books. The library sections include fiction, non-fiction, biographies, and periodicals. Destiny Quest accounts require a username, password and student ID number.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
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Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6
101 ways to_use_tagxedo
1. 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo
Hardy Leung
www.tagxedo.com
Copyrighted. All rights reserved
2. What is this About?
• Words + Image + Tagxedo = Amazing Visual Arts
• Tagxedo is versatile, flexible, and fun!
o Hence, 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo
• Each way is unique, and illustrated with an example
• I focus on unique techniques or use models
o The number of variants certainly far exceed 101
• Caution: Google Docs may not look right on IE6/IE7
o IE8, Firefox, Safari, Opera all somewhat okay
Different browsers render HTML differently
o Best viewed in Chrome
• Hope this inspire you to make your own Tagxedo!
• And please help me spread the word
o Use this URL: http://bit.ly/101tagxedo
Hardy Leung (ksleung@tagxedo.com)
3. Tagxedo Skills
• Basic
o Load, save, respin (color, theme, orientation, font)
o Default shapes (e.g. heart, dove)
• Intermediate
o Custom shapes
o More respin (make selection, use lock)
o History mode
o Options
o punctuation, numbers, common/identical Words,
tightness, emphasis, word count, hard boundary, font
preference, Deja Vu, skip words, normalized frequency
o Tilde (~) and frequency modifiers (e.g. Love:20)
• Advanced
o Custom fonts, more custom shapes (with editing)
8. Keep Track of Current Events
Daily Tagxedo http://daily.tagxedo.com
Spain Won
World Cup
Anna Chapman,
Russian Spy
Aung San Suu Kyi
in House Arrest
9. Make a Gift for your Favorite
Teacher
• This is the recreation of a
real gift I made for my son's
beloved Kindergarten
teacher
• Names are repeated and
weighed differently
10. Show Some Teacher Appreciation
• Each student contributes 10
words to describe the teachers
• Write them down on the
blackboard and tally the words
(combine similar words)
• Order the words by frequency
and enter them into Tagxedo
• Make a Tagxedo with the
"Frequency by Ordering"
method
• Make a card, and sign your
names
11. Review What You've Been
Tweeting Twitter ID at the Tagxedo homepage
• Just enter your
http://www.tagxedo.com
12. Find out Who Follow You at
Twitter
• Use the Tagxedo Twitter App
o http://www.tagxedo.com/fun/twitter
o Biographies ("descriptions") of your followers
o Up to the most recent 500 followers
o Easy to share at Facebook or Tweet about it
@tagxedo's
followers
13. Make a Poster of Your Favorite
Celebritysee Celebrity
• For example,
Tagxedo for celebrities like
Sarah Silverman, Leonardo
DiCaprio, and more
(http://celebrity.tagxedo.com)
14. Surround Yourself with Friends
• Turn names of your friends into a heart-shaped Tagxedo
• Facebook app apps.facebook.com/tagxedo
15. Make a Singable Tagxedo
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" by John Denver
16. Make a Self Portrait
• Use it as your avatar (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
o showing just enough and not too much
• Tips
o Not all photos work
Need high contrast
o Adjust threshold and blur
o Use Capture/Undo/Redo
o Prefer "Light" themes
o Photos can be color or B&W
o Examples of "Ideal Photos"
Steve Jobs' B&W
Abraham Lincoln
17. Say Thanks with Tagxedo
• Great for note, sign, frame
• Tips
o Use "Normalize Frequency" for a smooth distribution
o Customize it with the person's name
o Highlight "Thank You" with a different color
• http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/thankyou.htm
18. Critique Your Resume
• See from a different perspective
• Get instant feedback on
o Use of keywords
o Tone + Focus
e.g. what I did vs. how it
impacted the company vs.
what skills I process
• A simple "scanbot" test
o Good approximation of what
recruiters will see
o If you are not impressed by
the top words, neither will
your recruiters
19. Make a Graduation Card
• Use words of encouragement
• Customize
o Name of student
o Name of school
o Theme of school
o "Class of 20xx"
• Use graduation-related shapes
o cap and gown, school logo, ...
20. Stylize Your PowerPoint
Presentations
• Use Tagxedo effectively to separate out
different sections of a long presentation
o Use text from the presentation
o Use a low-constrast custom theme as
the backdrop ('Low' ffffff aaaaaa)
o Normalize frequency
o Suppose the section is about
Photography, add this to the text
Photography:#ff0000:@0:1000
(red, horizontal, freq = 1000)
o Make one Tagxedo for each section
Only need to change one line and
then hit respin!
21. Analyze Search Keywords (SEO)
• Take your Google Analytics search keywords, and massage
the data to the form <word>::frequency
• Options
o Combine Related Words = No, Allow Numbers = Yes,
Allow Punctuations = Yes, Frequency Modifier = ::
o Normalize frequency, Classic Cloud
• Learn from it, and optimize your site
o Example: Google Analytics on Tagxedo
* word cloud > tag cloud
* Tagxedo hard to spell?
remember: starts with
Tag, rthymes with Tuxedo
23. Say I Love You in 101 Ways
http://www.romancestuck.com/i-love-you-100-ways.htm
24. Make a Thank You Card
• Use names of people who came to your
party, shower, or seminar
• Need to be careful with options
o Don't Combine Identical Words
o Allow Punctuations
o Use Tilde (e.g. "Hardy~L.")
• Optionally highlight words
• Use all fonts to reflect diversity
25. Make a Class Tagxedo
• Make an artwork representing the class
o Teacher first makes a sample Tagxedo
careful about students with the same name
o Teacher's name (or class name) in higher frequency
o Decides on the background color
o Each student can now decide his/her own font and color
One time decision, so choose wisely
o Teacher takes the input and respins "all" 10 times
o Class votes for the best Tagxedo
o Learning
Express himself/herself
Appreciate typography
Show unity
26. Summarize a Sermon with
Tagxedo sermon, a scripture, or the entire bible
• Summarize a
o Or any religious or inspirational readings
• B/W and W/B both work great
o Already rich in beautiful words
• Great for framing
27. Make a Banner Logo for your Blog
• Make a Tagxedo from text of your blog as banner
o To force a certain aspect ratio, use custom image
o Use "Normalize Frequency" for a smooth distribution
o Optionally highlight the name of your site (different color
and font)
o Bonus
Change background color (Layout Options) to match
that of your blog
28. Expand Your Vocabulary
• Take a concept and use reverse
dictionary to find related
concepts
o http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml
o Sorted list of related phrases
o Normalize frequency
o Custom color to reveal the
original word
• Find words outside your
language comfort zone
• Learn related concepts
• Expand and improve your
vocabulary
29. Pay Tribute
• Pay tribute with words and images
Fans' tribute to
Michael Jackson
30. Turn Your Own Handwriting into
Artworks handwriting font
• Create your own
• Add the custom font to Tagxedo
o Easy to tell if a font is good or bad in Tagxedo
• Use it to create artwork for use in scrapbook, poster, tag
o e.g. your writing + shape + font + cutout = scrapbook art
31. Decorate With Tagxedo
• Make posters or picture frames of your most impressive
Tagxedo artworks for decoration
o Home, kids' rooms, or classroom, lobby, hallway
o Also works great for conference rooms with themed
names (e.g. named after countries, animals, pop singers)
o Attractive and elegant
32. Advertise a Product
• Make an ad using Tagxedo
o Eye catching, refreshing
• Example of a Fish Oil Supplement Ad
o Touting benefits of fish oil
o Use words describing the benefits, and shape of a fish
o Normalized frequencies
o Many customization possibilities
33. Break the Ice
• At the beginning of the school year, ask each student to
make a Tagxedo about himself/herself
o Show a sample (e.g. one about you, or previous class)
o What you like, what's unique about you
o Normalize Frequency make the exercise much easier (just
give an ordered list of words or phrases)
o classic cloud: >40 words/phrases shape: >100
• Each student gets a few minutes to talk about themselves
o Easiest - each makes a list, teacher makes Tagxedoes
o Hardest - each makes own Tagxedo (with shape)
34. Make a Cover
• Make a book, essay, or
notebook cover
• Easy
o Choose a shape that best
represents the project
o Use text from the project
• Advanced
o Embed the title of the book/
essay/project into the
Tagxedo and show it in a
different color/font/size
35. Decorate Marketing
Pamphlets/Datasheets
• Complement your product datasheets or marketing
materials with a Tagxedo
o Summarize the products or message
o Birds-eye view, captivating
o Customers get a gist in one glance
36. Make an Art Out of Any Text
• Literally any text can be
turned into something
interesting
o source code
o movie script
• Even non-text (actually quite
interesting!)
o Pdf, Dll, Doc
• Example shown
o Source code of Tagxedo
visualized in Tagxedo
o Top: Words only
o Bottom: numbers and
punctuations
37. Show Your Customer Testimony
• Show how much your customers love you with a Tagxedo
o The example was based on actual testimony from 11
customers (text used as-is) of a wedding cake shop
o Heart shape, logo, custom cloud all work well
o Hand fonts or light-hearted fonts
38. Make a Beautiful Sentence
• Even a single sentence can make a beautiful Tagxedo
• Tips
o Classic cloud (since few words in a sentence)
o Normalize frequency
o Pay attention to punctuation (e.g. I've)
o Selective highlighting of choice words
• Quotable quotes, excerpts of lyrics, and memes of the day
39. Make a Poem Tagxedo
• Take your favorite poem and make an inspiring Tagxedo
• Copy the entire text of the poem
• Do not combine related or identical words, and do not
remove common words
o So that the entire text appears as is
• Normalize frequency
• Color the first line of text differently
The Road Not Taken
I Do Not Love You Except ...
40. Savor Your Memory
• Make a Tagxedo out of your memory of the good o' days
o Memorial things that you did
o Favorite places to be with friends
o People you loved and people who changed you
• For younger folks
o Capture the best days with your friends
o Share the memory
o Say how you feel
o Wonderful gift to friends
41. Discover Your Personality
• Make a list of 100 values or personality traits
• Each person give a score for each value (0-100)
o Love:100 Coolness:50 Control:20 Flexibility:70
• Feed the data to Tagxedo
o Use the "Deja Vu" option, show maximum 50 words
• Normalize Frequency - forcing a ranking
• Make Tagxedoes and compare
o Find similarity, differences among people
o Games for bridal shower, couple dates, self introspection,
ice breaker
42. Start a Class Topic
• Start a class topic with Tagxedo
o Civil right, cold war, jazz, world cup, Lady Gaga ...
o Use Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<topic>)
o Use preset font/theme/orientation and options
o Can be interactive (e.g. class is interested in Malcolm X,
so let's make one right then and there)
o Talk the Tagxedo, and write down keywords for more
detailed discussion
43. Improve Students' Writing Skill
• Adapted from a Wordle suggestion made by Russeltarr
• Turn a student's history essay into a Tagxedo
• Use "Customize Words" to take out common English words
• See if the class can figure out (a) the topic, and (b) the title
• If they fail to do so, it means the essay lacks sufficient focus
on the question
• Use "Normalize Frequency" if distribution is out of whack
44. Convert any "Top 100" to a Cloud
View list from top to bottom + Normalize Frequency
• Rank the
•50-100 seems to work well, 25-50 may also work
o Classic cloud is more appropriate for smaller number
o Change tightness and/or "Spread" to adjust dramatization
Rolling Stone Top
100 Top Movies of All Time
100 Vocalists
45. Visualize Most Any Textual Data
• Most any textual data, formal or informal, can be visualized
in Tagxedo, often offering interesting perspectives
o List of common misspelled words
o Overused marketing terms
o Lotto statistics
• Tips
o Normalize frequency when appropriate
o Using all fonts conveys diversity
Lotto winning
likelihood
overused in marketing often misspelled
46. Tell People What Your Company
•Does
List keywords describing your company and
use "Normalize Frequency"
• Use your company logo or initials
o Single letter often looks very good
• Some "fat" fonts work very well with initials
o e.g. Fette Egyptienne
• Signs, posters, store front displays, etc.
Tagxedo ("t")
A Denver printing
company ("d")
47. Make a Business Card Design
• Add a Tagxedo to the back of the business card
o No need to repeat what's in the front (email, phone #),
but use it as an extended introduction
o Remind people what you do, or what you offer
o Normalize frequency
o Use a different font/color for your name
o Use custom shape (hard to get it right) or classic cloud
48. Contrast Candidates in a Political
• Tagxedo provides a first-order analysis
Debate speeches, slogans, promises, etc.
o Debates,
• The following example compares the words of Julia Gillard
(incumbent) and Tony Abbott in the Australian election
debate (July 25, 2010)
o Normalized Frequencies
show relative, not absolute, importance of words
o Gillard said "I believe" and "Australian people" a lot
o Abbott frequently laid blame at the "Government"
Julia Gillard Tony Abbott
49. Summarize a Field Trip Report
• Make a Tagxedo out of your field trip report
o Use related shapes
• Example
o A bird watching field trip
o Each student writes his/her own report
o Each group (of 5 students) write a more comprehensive
report, complete with pictures and research
o A Tagxedo is made of the words in the report and shape of a
bird (actual picture)
50. Summarize Chapters of a Book
• Summarize chapters of a book
o Use text from the chapter
o Highlight selected words to
summarize the chapter or lead to the
next
o Use related shape
Example: Tom Sawyer, steamboat
(silhouettes)
51. Appreciate Other Languages
• Make Tagxedo with non-Latin languages
o Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Russian, ...
o Classic poems, literatures, etc
o Also try Google Translate
e.g. translate "The Road Not Taken" to Chinese
o Consider the "NonLatin Heuristics" option. On? Off?
o Use custom fonts (e.g. free Chinese font here)
o Excellent learning opportunity
Introduce other cultures / appreciate diversity of
writing languages / great for group project
52. Make a Language Art
• Make multiple Tagxedoes of a
famous literature
o Original + multiple translations
o Either turn off common word
removal, or manually remove
them in the translations as well
• Use Google Translate as a backup
solution
• Compare and contrast the words
• Make a nice artwork display
• Crazy idea:
o English to Chinese to English!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in
English, Spanish, and Chinese
53. Turn Your Name into an Artwork
• Repeat your name 200 times
• Set "Combine Identical Words" to "No"
• Set "Normalize Frequency" to "Yes
o Tagxedo will size the words according to Zipf's Law
• Set "Font Preference" to "All"
• Idea
o Room signs, stickers, portfolio inserts
o Just don't brag about it, okay?
54. Use Tagxedo as a Font Evaluator
• Save Font File (TTF,
OTF, .ZIP) from Font
Websites (e.g. DaFont,
FontSquirrel)
• Use the "Add Font"
feature to load the font
• Excellent way to evaulate
and compare fonts
55. Make a Clickable Tag Cloud for
Your Site
• Silverlight-based
o Animated Words
o Clickable
o Require SL
• Image-map-based
o No animation
o Clickable
o No Flash/SL/JS
required
• See Blog for details
56. Name a Baby
• Collect a list of candidate names, assign them with
different weights (say between 5 and 100).
• Create a Tagxedo using the classic cloud
• See how your favorite names stand out in the presence
of others
• Adjust weights, and repeat (lock theme, font, and
orientation)
57. Juice up Important but Boring
Documents
• Safety manuals, terms and conditions, legal documents,
reference manuals
• Turn them into Tagxedoes
o Get a gist of what it is about (many have confusing titles)
o Normalize frequency if necessary
Helpful if desirable to promote certain keywords (give
them very high frequencies and then normalize)
58. Pick a Theme
• Use Tagxedo to pick a theme (palette)
o Wedding invitation, marketing event, personalized
palette, stationery, corporate theme, etc.
o Better visualization than the raw colors side by side
o Tips
use history mode for comparison
Set "Theme Preference" (any, bright, dark)
Add your own theme to Tagxedo to visualize
59. Teach Students about Cultures of
the World geography, history, and culture of
• Fun way to learn
different countries
• Great for projects
o One country per student/group
o Research, Prioritize words, Make Tagxedo, Give
presentation
o Turn the Tagxedoes into beautiful posters
60. Present Your Corporate Mission
•Statement
Present the (otherwise boring)
Mission Statement in a more
colorful way
• Use the mission statement as is
(better), or hand craft the words
Starbucks
(Class Cloud)
Google's Philosophy
(the "g" Cloud)
61. Teach Students about the States
• Similarly, students can learn about the States by researching
and making Tagxedo with shapes of the States
• Bonus idea
o Take out the names of the states and ask sutdents to guess
the States
o Use bigger words for the state flowers, Capitols, and
animals, and big cities
62. Capture Fond Memories
• Turn your fond memories
into a Tagxedo
o Childhood fun
o Summer vacation
o Visiting love ones
• Write an essay, or write
down words or short
sentences
o Tip: Adjust frequency to
highlight favorite
activities
• Perfect gift to grannies
after visiting them
63. Make a Unique Gift
• Easy to turn your unique Tagxedo artworks
into a T-shirt, hoodie, etc.
o Try the "Make a T-shirt (beta) feature
• Merchants: expand your product line with
Tagxedo customization
o rich customization options available
o email licensing@tagxedo.com
64. Improve Your Writing
• Turn your own writing into a Tagxedo (blog, diary, essay)
o Make ' (single quote) a punctuation exception
so that you can see words like don't, should've, I've
o Take out frequent words not related to style of writing
o Make a Tagxedo that is comfortable to read
classic cloud, horizontal, ChunkFive, bright theme
o Are certain words used too often?
want, feel, don't, going, things, ...
o Repeat this with some good writing, and compare
65. Make a One-of-a-Kind Birthday
Card (it's really easy!)
• Example
o Just repeated "Happy Birthday to You" and the name
o More mastery of the options = More creative you can be
• Many possibilities to make highly customized one-of-a-kind
birthday cards
66. Make Your Own Mother's Day
Card
• Find words to describe your mother
o Her personalities, music she enjoys, places she loves
o Normalize frequency
67. Bid Farewell to a Friend with a
• Tagxedo Card
Make a farewell card for a departing good friend
o Add his/her name, and names of his/her close friends
o Choose words to express love, farewell, and goodbye (the
following example Tagxedo is made of a collection of
farewell poems)
Important: proof read the words!
o Sign your names
68. Enrich Your Diary
• Three ways to enrich your diary
o Decorate your diary with Tagxedo every month
o Write a Tagxedo entry - just enter words in order of
importance (+ normalize frequency)
When you have tons of emotion but just can't write
o Write down the lyrics of a song that reflects your mood
Normalize frequency, custom theme, custom color
"Sometimes" by Carpenters
69. Make an Activity Poster
• Great for camps, zoos, parks, festivals, church activities
• Just enter the words that best describe the offering
o Easiest: score each activity, then normalize frequency
e.g. dancing:59 basketball:70 lunch:20
o Make multiple posters with the same theme/font, but
different weights to highlight different activities (or
different days in the camp)
70. Add Captions to a Music Video
• Tagxedo allows many creative ways to do that
• Example (Sometimes by Carpenters)
o Enter the whole lyrics into Tagxedo
o Normalize frequency, Don't combine related or identical
words and don't remove common words
o Highlight current sentence by doubling its frequency
o Highlight important words with a different color
Try listening to the song
while reading this!
71. Make a Tagxedo Guessing Game
• Turn famous writings into a Tagxedo guessing game
• More challenging: Hide the top 3 words
72. Make a Guess-the-Quote Game
• This is a brand-new game but very easy to make
• Use all words from a quote, and some not from it
o Similar and related words are great
o Normalize frequency, also careful with options
• Goal is to guess the quote (a la Wheel-of-Fortune)
o Use "Deja Vu" option to reveal the answer
• Variation: Give hints ("buy a word"), make it more difficult
with more words, always reveal the first word
73. Make a Resume/Recommendation
Cloud
• Two uses
o Summarize your resume
o Highlight recommendations made by others about you
• Pick and choose significant words
o Use "Normalize Frequency" for a smooth distribution
• Uniquely about you
o Can make you stand out if complemented with a solid
offering and a good dose of modesty
Resume (demo)
74. Make a Simple Party Poster
• Just a few details
o Occasion, place, address, phone, contact, RSVP
o Normalize frequency
o Custom color
75. Condense a Court Document
• Condense any court ruling into
a visually appealing form
• Lead-in for class discussion
• Example
o Full text of Judge Vaughn
Walker's 163-page ruling on
the gay marriage ban
(Proposition 8)
76. Make a List of Favorite Cities
You've Visited vacation destinations
• ... Or a list of your dream
• Order the destinations by how much you like them
o Use the "Normalize Frequency" feature to automatically
assign frequencies
o Adjust the "Spread" to your liking
77. Teach ABC
• Make a pictorial introduction to ABC
o Eye catching pictures
o Use "Deja Vu" to make same layout but different colors
o Many variants, adaptable to different age group
Hunt for letter T
Recognize the words
What's that color
o Customize to child's need
use real names
favorite colors
78. Stimulate Early-Childhood
Learning song into a
• Turn a familiar
Tagxedo
• Ask child to recognize words
(and provide ample hints)
• He/she will soon get it and
eager to guess the words
• Ask him/her to sing it out loud
while pointing at the words
• Build confidence and interest in
words
• Fun game to play
• Ask child to name his favorite
songs to play the game with
79. Make a Fun Personality Test,
With Rank a list of top 20 core values
• Part I: Friends
o family, friendship, accomplishment, wealth, health, etc
o tips: give each value a score (0-100), and then sort
o Make a Tagxedo with normalized frequency
• Part II: Variations for two people
o Compute the difference between the ranking of values
o Frequency = Absolute delta, Red if +ve, Blue if -ve
o Highlight difference between the two
Bigger words = larger difference, Color indicates
whether you care more or less
Maybe I'll make a simple app to make this easy?
80. Show Your True Color
• Make a Tagxedo with 100
words best describing you
or your friend
o Adjust frequencies to
highlight personality
o Bonus: color effect
• Make a T-shirt, a mug, or
a poster
o Truly one of a kind
o Great birthday gift
81. Learn More about Yourself
• Each student writes 5 adjectives about each of his/her
classmates
• All adjectives are collected and each student choose and rank
40 adjectives that best describes himself/herself
• Make a Tagxedo of adjectives others choose to describe you
• Make a Tagxedo of adjectives you choose to describe yourself
• Compare the two
o Best to use "Deja Vu" option (same word = same color)
o Use "Normalize Frequency" (to show ranking)
82. Capture the Collective Wisdom
• Ask a question and solicit short replies from people (exactly
6 words, at most 140 characters, etc)
o How to be happy?
o How to improve our schools?
o How to fix the economy?
• Build a Tagxedo with the response
o Capture the collective wisdom
Happiness is ...
83. Make a Speaker's Biography
• Give your keynote speaker a
specical treat with a Tagxedo
biography about them
• Example
o Don Marinelli, Professor of
Drama and Art Mgmt at CMU
o Keynote, SIGGRAPH 2010
o Classic, logo, or portrait
Portrait
Classic
Cloud
84. Create a Conference Session
Poster
• Make a poster for each session
• At-a-glance summary of the topics
85. Brainstorm a Topic
• Use Tagxedo as a brainstorming tool
o School - class discussion, debate, research
o Marketing - buzzword analysis, idea generation
• Copy and paste text from multiple sources
o Wikipedia, news, forums
o Optionally use "Normalize Frequency" to tone down the
top words, or simply skip them
Original (green energy) Top obvious words removed
86. Recommend Local Attractions to
Visitors foreign visitors with your own local
• Welcome your
recommendations
o Tourist attractions
o Food, entertainment, best bargain
o Bonus attractions only locals know
• Order the recommendations, and use the "Normalize
Frequency" feature
Can you guess
where this is?
87. Create a Synonym Word Wall
• Look up synonyms of overused words at thesaurus.com
o Beautiful, Exciting, Really, Love, Hate, Think
• Cut and paste all the synonyms to Tagxedo
• Add the original word, make it stand out (font/color/size)
• Add diversity with "Normalize Frequency" and/or "All Fonts"
• Make it a personal or group project (e.g. 2 words per student)
o Post to wall, make a book
o Encourage more creative writing
88. Present Statistics Visually
• Present statistics visually
o <word>:<frequency>
o To show ranking use
"Normalize Frequency"
• Examples
o US cities by population
o British and Chinese
surnames by popularity
89. Make a Poster of Your Favorite
Movies
• Make a list of 100+ of your favorite movies
• Use the "Normalize Frequency" option.
• Make a unique Tagxedo
90. Find Out Which Words are
• Get a list of words, ... it in Tagxedo and see which words are
Popular in put
popular
o book titles, baby names, tweets among friends, ...
• Example adapted from the blog post Life & Death in YA Lit
o Author conjectured that "dead" is the word of the year in
Young-Adult titles
o Prove it with a word cloud (341 titles)
91. Write a Book
• Make a Tagxedo book on your
favorite topics
o Animals from A-Z
o Different breeds of dog
o Transportation
o Countries and cultures
o Your school life
• Research about the topics and
make a Tagxedo with the text
o Accompany the Tagxedo
with some text
• Group project
• Consider publish it!
92. Take a Quick Class Poll
• Interesting visualization of polls
o What's your favorite color?
o Top-three locations (out of 20) for class outing?
• Great for real-time poll
93. Make a Find-the-Words Game
• Make a Tagxedo, some animal names, some not
o Instead of mammals, you can also Bible characters, color
names, cities, capitals of countries, ...
• Make two versions, one showing the answer and one not
• Ask the children to find all animals
o Make it a timed game (or untimed for tricky topics)
• Use "Deja Vu" so both have the same word placement
• Use custom theme and color to reveal the answers
• Many variations
o e.g. find 3 carnivores that live in Africa
94. Conduct a Sentiment Analysis
• Kauffman Foundation asked a group of (~40) bloggers to
describe the economy in 5 adjectives (see report here)
• The result is turned into a Tagxedo, which clearly reflects the
mood
95. Turn Your Thesis into an Artwork
• Turn months or years of your hard work into an artwork
• Add your thesis title to the Tagxedo
o Easy to do with normalized frequencies
• The following is the MS thesis titled "Artistic Rendering of
Portrait Photographs" by Eric Wong (140 pages)
• Use related shapes
• Add it to your thesis
• Great gift to parents
96. Build Your SAT Vocabulary
• Collect a list of essential words
o 100, 500, 1000, 5000 words
o Make a Tagxedo with 100 words each
Normalize frequency, easy-to-read font
Turn each Tagxedo into a flashcard
Review, and circle words that you don't know
Collect the circled words, repeat the exercise
Put tricky words on top (so they are bigger)
I may make an app for this
97. Debrief Your Audience
• After a lecture, rejuvenate your audience with a Tagxedo
o Especially good for dry or serious topics
o Replace the "Summary" or "Learning" slide
• Two methods
o Let Tagxedo sizes the words based on the text
o Use "Customize Words" to show the text in relative
frequencies, and come up with your ranking
• Go through the key points again
o Lead your audience through the important topics
A Lecture about
the Cold War
98. Summarize a Blog Post
• Any blog post can be visually and
pleasingly summarized
• Advantages
o Provide a different perspective
on the topics
o Give the audience a quick
overview (great for the TL;DR
generation)
o Juice up topics lacking
supplemental visuals or
images
o Why not? Just for fun!
A blog post about
Android "reimaged"
with Tagxedo
99. Use Tagxedo as a Background
Image
• Using words from your presentation
• Choose a compatible theme
• Use an image editor to brighten or darken the words
• Optionally crop the Tagxedo to maintain aspect ratio
• Don't over do it
100. Visualize a Poll
• Favorite artists, Atheletes of the
Year, Person of the Year...
• Use tilde (~) and colon (:)
o North~Korea:659141
• Where Justin Bieber should tour
o Because of an Internet prank,
some countries are voted
disproportionally
o Normalize Frequency may help
Actual
Frequencies
Normalized
Frequencies
101. Outline a Syllabus
• What text to use
o The Syllabus
o Actual course material
o A prioritized list of key
concepts (this works best)
• How to show it
o Classic cloud or course-related
images both work
o For list of prioritized concepts,
"Normalize Frequency" gives
good result
• Example shown
o Stanford CS 448A,
Computational Photography,
Spring 2010
102. Make a Guess, Win a Prize
• Make a Tagxedo of a subject
o Travel destination, celebrity, famous novel
o Take out all obvious keywords, but leave enough clues in
o Guess where/who/what
o Plenty of learning opportunities
Encourage students to do their own researches
Collaborative guesses (group of 5, 20 puzzles)
Students give presentation about the places
• Bonus: make an extra (but subtle) hint with the shape
Answer
Answer
103. Track a Poll Over Time
• Track data evolving over time
o College football ranking (weekly or annual)
• For rankings, use "Normalize Frequency"
• Use "Deja Vu" for better comparison
o Same word has the same color across all runs
Week 0 Week 8
Final
Week 12
104. Kill Some Time
• Make a Tagxedo whenever you are bored, and very soon
you'll have an impression collection of visual art
o Warning: time may mysteriously disappear
105. Resources
• Home www.tagxedo.com
• Gallery (300+ examples) www.tagxedo.com/gallery.html
• All Things Tagxedo blog.tagxedo.com
o Announcement, news, idea, tips
• Daily Tagxedo daily.tagxedo.com
o Current events, trending topics, ideas of the day
• Celebrity Tagxedo celebrity.tagxedo.com
o Portrait of famous people, notable personalities
• Forum, FAQ