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Word clouds in practice — page 3

Tutorials, product updates, and analyses of real text — speeches, surveys, books and reports — read through WordCloud+.

Wooden Scrabble tiles spelling the word SIMPLE.
Feature Update

Feature update: A couple of little helpers

This week we have released two new features to make using Word Cloud Plus easier and we give a sneak peak as to what is happening over the coming weeks.

Will Poynter

2 mins read

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Feature update: Cloud Builder 2.0

We devoted this week to writing a new Cloud Builder that is designed to create prettier clouds and work better on lower-performance computers.

Will Poynter

2 mins read

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Feature Update

Feature update: Colours

This week's update is focused on making it easier to pick good colour combinations to make beautiful word clouds

Will Poynter

2 mins read

A concert crowd with raised hands, one pair making a heart shape against the stage lights.

What makes a great presenter? Analysis via Word Cloud Plus

NewMR and The Future Place have recently launched the first iteration of Word Cloud Plus – a better way to create word clouds. In this post, I show how I am using Word Cloud Plus to look at open-ended comments from surveys.

Ray Poynter

3 mins read

A rocky headland with a stone tower at dusk, sea and islets beyond.

Factors and Premises Affecting Insights and Market Research over the Next Five Years

I am working on a new insights/MR scenario project with a time horizon of five years from now. One of the first steps in the scenario-creating process is to gather together the key factors and premises. The Premises are things that are likely to be important and which, for the purposes of this project, we are going to assume will be predictable during the timespan of the project. The Factors are items which are also important, but where there are two or more plausible forms they might take duri

Ray Poynter

2 mins read

A puffin in flight carrying fish in its beak above a grassy, rocky shore.

What is the difference between strategy and tactics – and why are tactics so important?

Too many people, too often, seem to think the future is all about strategy. People often shun the everyday needs of tactics for the glory of being strategic. However, this is often a mistake, there is usually more work to be done with tactics than with the strategic. The Art of War The terms Strategic and Tactical can be traced back to Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”, written about 2500 years ago. Szu Tzu writes “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is t

Ray Poynter

2 mins read

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