Word4Word Philadelphia

I’ve been posting the “large” thumbnails of the word clouds, but now that I’m posting several days’ worth I wanted to try to give a sense of the progression and variation from day to day — thus the small thumbnails below. You can still click through to the originals. As before, these are in the order m4m, m4w, w4m, w4w.

Jan. 2 m4m

Jan. 2 m4w

Jan. 2 w4m

Jan. 2 w4w

Jan. 3 m4m

Jan. 3 m4w

Jan. 3 w4m

Jan. 3 w4w

Jan. 4 m4m

Jan. 4 m4w

Jan. 4 w4m

Jan. 4 w4w

Jan. 5 m4m

Jan. 5 m4w

Jan. 5 w4m

Jan. 5 w4w

Jan. 6 m4m

Jan. 6 m4w

Jan. 6 w4m

Jan. 6 w4w

At the Fun-A-Day exhibit, I plan to have them stretched out in four parallel lines, so you can easily compare the four for each day and then chronologically for each section — I realize this is a little harder to do in this blog format.

Looking continues to dominate, and continues to dominate more in the m4m category. Im is also popular. I’ve been filtering out all punctuation, including apostrophes, so most of those are probably from “I’m.” Some might be from IM (instant message) but spot-checking a few of these showed most of the instances as having been the former. It’s worth pointing out that Wordle is automatically removing common English words (like I, a, the) so that they don’t dominate even more than Im is.

Interesting word combos:

• Jan. 3 w4m: I’m just looking
• Jan. 3 w4w: Someone black please — black tends to rate in the top tier of words in this section; white is generally frequent in m4m
• Jan. 5 m4m: Stats please send pic face pics (coincidental arrangement, but probably not an uncommon ordering of words)
• Jan. 5 m4w: (Im) know woman well

Other notes:

• w4w seems to be the most polite section — please generally rates highest here.
• Bottom and top tend to be about equal frequency in m4m. Neither word ranks high in any other category.
• Conversely, the word someone seems to be an interesting word that appears in m4w, w4m and w4w relatively frequently, but rarely in m4m.
• Good tends to rate high in m4w and somewhat less high in w4m, but almost nowhere in w4w and m4m. (Lest you think this is all about moral judgment or good looks, spot-checking seemed to indicate about as much “good time” as “good looking.”)
• Want seems to be pretty inconsistent, but is usually most frequent in m4w.
• Life keeps popping up in w4m, and almost nowhere else.