Wordcount: A Tool for Wordsmiths

Recently, I have been doing some Text Mining and Natural Language Processing and appreciate how tough the underlying problems are. Nevertheless, with the amount of "text" information just in the Blogsphere, the ability to use algorithms to process data is definitely valuable.

This week I ran across this fun visualization tool. Type in a word, and the tool will display where in the Power Law Probability distribution you word falls, and what words closely resemble its frequency. The universe of Words in the tool is a mere 86K, so really obscure Words will not show up.

AJAX is cool, but as this example shows, Flash is another fun way to deliver interactive web apps.