Words from General Conference

by Larry Richman on October 20, 2008

Inputting the full text (except words like it, the, and and) of the recent General Conference into Wordle created the word cloud shown below. Frequency of use determines word size.

Tagged as: lds mormon general conference

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{ 19 comments… read them below or add one }

Jesse Stay October 20, 2008 at 5:41 pm

Thanks for doing that – I tried, but it kept timing out for me on the notes I was basing it on.

jacob October 20, 2008 at 7:43 pm

I had the very same idea, but I haven’t gotten to it yet.

Melissa October 20, 2008 at 8:28 pm

Is there a purpose in the shape? Maybe I am too much into symbolism, but it looks like a fish.

Connor October 20, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Is that the one I created? I like the dark one better.

I also generated a PDF version for the one shown above (I had to re-generate the text, so the words are moved around a bit), and have had several people tell me that they’ve printed it to display in their home somewhere.

Larry Richman October 20, 2008 at 9:53 pm

Connor,

Sorry, but I don’t remember where I got it. If it was from you, sorry I didn’t give you credit.

Larry

Chris Welch October 20, 2008 at 10:30 pm

Thanks for posting this.

Stephen M (Ethesis) October 21, 2008 at 5:20 am

Thanks. That was pretty as well.

Stephen M (Ethesis) October 21, 2008 at 5:22 am

Larry, I commented, but didn’t hit submit until this morning. I, too, liked it enough to print it out to have it.

Larry Beck October 21, 2008 at 9:46 am

I tried “wordling” the Book of Mormon. Found a text file on the internet and “wordled” 1 Nephi and 3 Nephi. As you can guess, Nephi is the largest word. Fascinating web site.

Heather October 21, 2008 at 12:25 pm

I LOVE THIS! Thank you for share it. I’d love to frame it.

aqua October 21, 2008 at 4:42 pm

i like the dark one better 2. and it does look like a fish. that’s kind of weird.

Clint October 22, 2008 at 11:01 am

I tried this yesterday and loved it. I’m planning on “wordleing” my blog. It tried it today and it looks like the website is down.

New Technologies October 22, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Really very cool thanks for share

Brad Wilson October 30, 2008 at 4:00 am

It’s great to show this to friends as another “proof” that the Church isn’t focused solely on Joseph Smith…that out of ~8hrs worth of talks “Lord”, “Jesus”, and “Christ” are in fact most prominent.

Kat November 26, 2008 at 9:05 am

Perhaps it’s because grew up Catholic and joined the LDS Church as an adult, but my first impression of the shape was that it was a FOOTPRINT, and made me think of the “Footprints” poem about walking on the beach with the Lord.

Just my $0.02. :)

Janet December 19, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Where did you get the entire text of General Conference in one place? Can I get your file? I want to try to make my own version…

Thanks, this is beautiful
Janet

ldsWebguy December 19, 2008 at 11:41 pm

I just went to the general conference page on LDS.org, opened each talk and copied the text into a single Word file. Sorry, I didn’t keep the file.

Connor April 9, 2009 at 9:34 pm

I have created a new wordle for this past weekend’s general conference. Image here, PDF version here.

Also check out this linguistic analysis, which I find very interesting.

Gayle April 26, 2009 at 8:45 am

I think that it looks more like a foot print and by following the spoken words in that word cloud we cant go wrong. Thanks for sharing.

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