Kia Ora Friend,

Here is an interesting Python project. I turned one of my old essays into a wordcloud.

A wordcloud is a graphical representation of the frequency of works in a piece of text. The bigger the word, the more frequently is occurs.

How it works?

This is a simple and fun projects. First, we need to break the text down, removing unnecessary punctuation and words that don't add much meaning like 'a', 'the' etc.

Next we use a library to turn these words into a wordcloud.

It's as simple as that.

Check out the article (link below).

Also, check out the github if you want to have a play around for yourself.

Please share this with anyone who might find this interesting. Thanks for checking this out and all the best for the week ahead.

Mā te wā,

Shivan :)

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