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A while ago I tried to write some wordcloud code, but couldn't quite figure out how to do the layout. Does anyone know where one might find a good writeup…",{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"21485492","chrisweekly","Beautiful! Thank you for creating and sharing this! :)",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"21485205","calmworm","Very impressive! Well done!",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"21486722","amrrs","Super awesome. I just tried Obama's inaugural speech as Linkedin Icon - https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Famrrs\u002Fstylecloud-demo\u002Fblob\u002Fmaster\u002Fobama_speech_linkedin.PNG It came out very well!",[78,93],{"value":79,"source":59,"evidence":80},"Word clouds are a useless or decorative data presentation",[81,85,89],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"21496295","klysm","I believe word clouds are one of the most useless presentations of data that are widely used",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"21487516","meej","I wrote a paper about word clouds for my Information Retrieval class when I was in Library School, when word clouds were still a trendy and popular content browsing UI. I…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"21485637","danso","This is a great tool! Ironically, I might use it someday to illustrate why word clouds are an absurd format. 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