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HTML5 Word Cloud

Create a tag Wordle presentation on a HTML5 canvas element for a given article, powered by wordfreq, remote data fetching through public APIs, and sharing tools.

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Author & Copyright

Copyright 2011, 2013 Timothy Guan-tin Chien and other contributors. Released under the MIT license.

Libraries used

Understand more on how this web application works by following the links below:

• wordcloud2.js - standalone library for the "word cloud" on canvas.
• wordfreq - text corpus calculation in JavaScript (with Web Workers)

Acknowledgement

• Christopher McKenzie for Javascript implementation of Porter Stemming Algorithm (used in wordfreq)
• Bootstrap UI framework (CSS only)
• MediaWiki API running on Wikipedia
• Imgur API with free anonymous CORS image sharing

Contributors

Understand how to contribute by reading ./CONTRIBUTE.md.

• Grassboy Wu for helping some of the work in the rewrite version
• Yuren Ju for initial version of Facebook status fetching support

Build

See ./PRODUCTION.md for instructions.