It's funny that 5 of the first 15 correct solvers (including me) tried the answer to Joon's word. Ineligible, right? Or is that only for words used previously? Neat word cloud, by the way. I see the page source now includes all the guesses in order of submission. I wonder whether there's some other visualization that can show the approaches to the correct answer.
nope, it's not ineligible. it is possible (but of course, highly unlikely) that the same word could be both answers on the same day.
i guess if there were a word cloud-type visualization that also had lines or arrows connecting consecutive guesses from the same person, that would be slightly more illustrative. but i don't know of anything like that that's already been written (although visual thesaurus is kind of a similar idea), and i'm certainly not about to write one myself. wordle was really easy to integrate into GMW—as dan noticed, all i had to do was dump the entire guess history into an HTML form and submit it to wordle.
if anybody knows of a site that creates that kind of directed-graph-cum-word-cloud that i mentioned, let me know and i'll see what i can do.
Mathematica will draw graphs, like those in VT. I've drawn some, but they're not quite as interactive. This article shows only a tiny bit of what it can do. http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/03/17/the-distance-between-zero-and-hero-exploring-synonym-chains-with-mathematica/
I'm not sure how one would represent movement forward and back in the alphabetical sort. These graphs have no metric, just show connections (possibly directed). Also would want to combine the guess threads of all participants, with the commonly guessed words indicated by having lots of arrows pointing into them.
It's funny that 5 of the first 15 correct solvers (including me) tried the answer to Joon's word. Ineligible, right? Or is that only for words used previously? Neat word cloud, by the way. I see the page source now includes all the guesses in order of submission. I wonder whether there's some other visualization that can show the approaches to the correct answer.
ReplyDeletenope, it's not ineligible. it is possible (but of course, highly unlikely) that the same word could be both answers on the same day.
ReplyDeletei guess if there were a word cloud-type visualization that also had lines or arrows connecting consecutive guesses from the same person, that would be slightly more illustrative. but i don't know of anything like that that's already been written (although visual thesaurus is kind of a similar idea), and i'm certainly not about to write one myself. wordle was really easy to integrate into GMW—as dan noticed, all i had to do was dump the entire guess history into an HTML form and submit it to wordle.
if anybody knows of a site that creates that kind of directed-graph-cum-word-cloud that i mentioned, let me know and i'll see what i can do.
Mathematica will draw graphs, like those in VT. I've drawn some, but they're not quite as interactive. This article shows only a tiny bit of what it can do. http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/03/17/the-distance-between-zero-and-hero-exploring-synonym-chains-with-mathematica/
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how one would represent movement forward and back in the alphabetical sort. These graphs have no metric, just show connections (possibly directed). Also would want to combine the guess threads of all participants, with the commonly guessed words indicated by having lots of arrows pointing into them.
That begins to sound like both too much work and too crowded a page, guys!
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