I am nearing the end of my second year of my PhD studies and I thought it was time to check out where I am up to. I have been studying part time and plodding along, and this year I took 4 months off after my mum died. I have enjoyed taking a break, but now I am starting to feel impatient to get going again. I've had a few weeks off work and been able to study full time and this has been really enjoyable.
I thought it was a good time to do another wordle cloud to display and distill my PhD writing. Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text. I have copied the text from my PhD writing over the past two years - I am up to around 10,000 words. The wordle clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. It is pretty cool and you can make your clouds look different with funky fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
It's interesting to see the themes that are emerging from my thinking, reading and writing. Do you have any feedback or comments about my wordle word cloud?
