Frequently Asked Questions

What am I looking at? This is a wordcloud of the text from the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators. 

How was the graphic made? The worldcloud was made using Tagxedo, a free online clouding tool. The text was taken from the AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators. It took approximately 10 minutes to make the initial cloud and another half hour work through the many options to customize the shape, color, word sizing, and font to the ones you see. Here are the setting details:

Shape: AEA Square Logo Uploaded; Font: Mido; Orientation: Horizontal; Theme (color): Custom set uploaded "‘AEA’ 000000 73120C 003A73 BF6B00 2F5924 BF3B17"

Word Options: Punctuation NO, Numbers NO, Remove Common Words YES, Combine Related Words YES; Combine Identical Words YES; Frequency Modifier :; Normalize Frequency YES; Spread 40; Apply NonLatin Heuristics YES

Layout Options: Emphasis 50%; Maximum Word Count 450; Tightness 150%; Color Variation 74%; Background Opacity 100%; Deja Vu OFF; Scatter 100%; Hard Boundary YES; use Source Color NO; Allow Replication NO; Theme Preference WHITE FRIENDLY; Font Preference Any 1