Published on Jan. 1, 2010
For the last year Yan-Shih and I have been studying French once a week (4.5hr on Saturday!) A few months ago I wrote some Python code to read the RSS feeds of the most popular French newspaper site, and then kept track of the count of each word. I repeated this every week for a few months.
In the end I had a database of the top ~3000 words used on the site. Today I decided I wanted to play with Processing, so created this little word collage. It is 1680x1050, my monitor's resolution. Two thumbs up for Processing!
Tagged as: french | processing
Good idea on the color part - I'm still looking for an API that can tell me if the word is a verb/noun/etc. Good eyes on the Debug - I'm actually implementing a new Travel Map and needed to know why it was throwing an error:P
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Cool, does it eliminate proper nouns? Maybe you could color code verbs/non/adjectives etc.?
Also FYI, your blog has Debug = True in Django, you might want to turn that off. I use the following snippet so I don't have to muck with this:
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippet...
Just make sure to ignore local_settings.py in your source control.