Wordles & Endless Possibilities

This wonderful site offers endless possibilities for creative expression using words. The developer says: "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes".
This wordle was created from the blog post entitled, "Is there a difference between the soul and the spirit?", March 28th.

It would be interesting to monitor ongoing symptom burden in selected patients by teaching them how to use this tool. A visual ESAS! with choice of font, color scheme and layout. On the web site, under the Wordle 'advanced' tab, words can be weighted to increase their prominence. Here is an example using ESAS symptoms with weights arbitrarily assigned, giving anxiety the highest symptom burden and appetite, breathlessness and nausea the lowest: Pain:60, Depression:20, Nausea:10, Mood:20, Sleep:80, Tiredness:80, Anxiety:100, Well-being:50, Breathlessness:10, Appetite:10. It is easy to see that anxiety is the main issue confronting this fictitious patient, followed by tiredness and sleep.

This wordle uses 'duality' font, the 'mostly horizontal' layout and the 'kindled' color scheme. It is possible to select specific colors for each word if one understands how to use HTML color names. The wordle product changes every time you make a selection.....so, if you create something beautiful, open it in window (see tab on bottom left of the wordle), then save it as a screen shot.