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Thought I'd try presenting some data in a new way. Will be interested to hear what people make of the pencil cloud.

Virtual fun size Mars Bar for the first person to capture the arch-pencil-evader PEINED!

(Have seen these word clouds before... I think Q Magazine (yuck) brought them to my attention by feeding the entire lyrical output of Oasis into a word cloud. I'll let you know if it helps me to remember the unpencilled words, if I ever nab one of them.)

Matt Bayfield wrote:Virtual fun size Mars Bar for the first person to capture the arch-pencil-evader PEINED!

(Have seen these word clouds before... I think Q Magazine (yuck) brought them to my attention by feeding the entire lyrical output of Oasis into a word cloud. I'll let you know if it helps me to remember the unpencilled words, if I ever nab one of them.)

Is it supposed to aid memory? It is worse for that IMO as there's too much information. I printed out a list of unpencilled words by length earlier this year and it was relatively easy to memorise given that it was in a list. A cloud like that is just too much information packed in too small a space, imo.

Kirk Bevins wrote:

Matt Bayfield wrote:Virtual fun size Mars Bar for the first person to capture the arch-pencil-evader PEINED!

(Have seen these word clouds before... I think Q Magazine (yuck) brought them to my attention by feeding the entire lyrical output of Oasis into a word cloud. I'll let you know if it helps me to remember the unpencilled words, if I ever nab one of them.)

Is it supposed to aid memory? It is worse for that IMO as there's too much information. I printed out a list of unpencilled words by length earlier this year and it was relatively easy to memorise given that it was in a list. A cloud like that is just too much information packed in too small a space, imo.

I don't think it's for aiding memory, just a nice visual representation. More please.

Haha I knew I could rely on you to object to anything new, Kirk. Thanks for the feedback all.

How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?

Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?

Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.

Charlie Reams wrote:

Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?

Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.

I tried posthock probability once, it didn't work out too well.

Michael Wallace wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:

Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?

Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.

I tried posthock probability once, it didn't work out too well.

Evidently you're not a probability genius.

Michael Wallace wrote:

Charlie Reams wrote:

Lesley Hines wrote:How the hell has nerdish not been pencilled?

Quite a few of them are kinda surprising, with words like ABLEIST which a lot of players would know. Suppose it's the usual posthoc probability thing.

I tried posthock probability once, it didn't work out too well.

Peined (pwned).

Davies may have got to PEINED first, but by learning a few of the words with more obvious anagrams (DEFINES, STAINED, PARTIES, BOARDER, PLEASE, MAIDEN, NASTIES, SEATING, LOCATES, GUARDS, RETAIL), I've nabbed one from the cloud: ARTELI.

So it has worked, kinda!

Not to mention RODLETS, which has the more obvious anagram OLDSTER.