Oracle of ONE1

Occassionally, I need to load an unrealted model into a controller. There are a number of ways to do this but some are better than others. The following is taken from reply by gwoo to a discussion thread.

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I have thrown together a simple proof of concept (POC) in cakePHP for displaying cloud words. What are cloud words? Word frequencies displayed in a cloud similar to a tag cloud. A tag cloud may be found on right column of this blog site. The POC may be tested here.

What does it do?

Cloud Words allows for the upload and analysis of plain text and MS Word files. MS Word files are converted to plain text for the analysis. The analysis simply does a count total for each word in the file. A simple word count is actually not very useful since the most common words will dominate the count list. The most common words are generally not very useful for understanding the contents of a document. “THE” is the single word found most often in documents.

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