* Word Cloud Experiments

[Jane]

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I am off on a Genealogy Cruise in a few weeks and wanted a tee shirt to wear with my research surnames on. So I hit upon the idea of creating a word cloud. I found a web site called "Wordle" which created lovely looking word clouds, so I wrote a quick plugin to call it with the surname counts for a selection of people from my tree.

It's easy to run, just select either everyone in your tree or the ancestors of a single person and then click on Launch Wordle, you will need to allow the Java App to run to see the results.

[capnkeith]

Wow what a brilliant idea. I'm not one for logo T shirts but I had been thinking of how to do something different for the covers of my folders / books of the various branches of my tree.

I wonder if it is possible not to include names in [square brackets]. I still put spouses without surnames under the surname of the family name in [square brackets] . Or is there a better way of recording them now? I think it was a suggestion of yours many years / versions ago, to record them that way.

[PeterR]

Thanks, Jane, but ...
First attempt gave an error message. This was easily fixed by an extra line, to exclude blank surnames, in the for loop starting at line 17.

[Jane]

I have made a couple of changes one for the blank surname and one to check for all of (,{,[ as the first character of a surname and to skip them. It already did round brackets which is what I use.

[LornaCraig]

When I go to the Wordle website I get this warning message:

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Is it safe? (I realise it is not referring to Jane's plugin but to something in Wordle itself).

[Jane]

I presume it's your anti-virus doing that, I would check on the Av site. I can only say it's not caused me any problems.

[Valkrider]

Jane

It is Firefox that says there is a security vulnerability in the toolkit that Wordle use not the local AV programme.

I have tried to run it and get this error message when I try more than 1 surname

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Any thoughts?

[Jane]

Not seen any errors like that, it looks like a Wordle error rather than the plugin.

If you type the names in on the advanced page do you get the same error, if so it might be your Java version?

[capnkeith]

Hi Jane

I tried the modified plugin but it still publishes the square brackets. I downloaded the modified plugin from your first post again, or should I have gone somewhere else?

[PeterR]

[As of 14:34] Jane's modified plugin not available via original link.

I got the same error message as Colin [Valkrider, above] when blank surname(s) included in list. If this is the same issue, you can merely delete the relevant line from ...\Family Historian Projects\{project}\{project}.fh_data\Plugin Data\Wordle Surname List.html and then reload that file in your browser.

[Valkrider]

Jane

Is there a way to see the output file before sending it to Wordle to see if there is an issue with the file?

I have created my list using GedXlate and Excel and then just pasting it in and that worked fine so I suspect there is something odd in my Gedcom.

[Valkrider]

Thanks to Peter's comments I found where it stores the output and like him the problem is where the surname is unknown I had just :55 in the html. Ran the script with that line and got the error message. Removed the line and it runs fine.

Little tweak to the plugin required?

[capnkeith]

No mine is not the same issue. I don't have any blank surnames. I use the the family name of the person they are attached to within Square brackets until I find their missing surname. That way instead of having say a dozen Marys who you cannot see who they are attached to, you can see a name within brackets. Which you then know is not their name but the name of the person/family they are attached to.

So my word cloud plugin is working ok, except that it displays names within brackets.

[tatewise]

Unfortunately, despite saying it had been updated, the Plugin link at the top still refers to a Version that only removes names starting with '(' parentheses.
If you are prepared to edit the Plugin, then change line 19 to:

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        local strFirst = strSurname:sub(1,1)
        if bExcludeBrackets and ( strSurname == '' or strFirst == '(' or strFirst == '[' or strFirst == '{' ) then

Another minor fix is needed to prevent Wordle being invoked if the resultant list of names is empty.

[Jane]

Sorry my mistake, I forgot I uploaded rather than giving a link to the Dropbox.

New version is 0.2

[Valkrider]

Jane

Thanks that version has fixed it for me with no blank surnames created.

[capnkeith]

Jane

Yes it works for me also

Thanks