Word Count

Word Count, an oldie but goodie shines a positive light on information gathering. There are so many different ways of presenting information and with a large enough dataset, that presentation’s impact is even more substantial. Jonathan Harris’s application combs the British National Corpus database of more than 100 million words and takes the most 86,800 commonly used words in the English language. Word Count then sorts the words by order of frequency and presents it in a minimalistic left-to-right scrolling format. Aside from a numeric ranking, the words are sized by order of importance, with larger fonts representing more commonly used words. Lastly, you can search the database by either word or ranking. Visit the site today and scroll through the first dozen or so words. You may (or may not) be surprised at what you find.