# Re: Text/Tag Cloud generation **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 12, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-text-tag-cloud-generation/117074 "2007-10-12T18:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joviyach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@joviyach](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joviyach)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-text-tag-cloud-generation/117074/1 "2007-10-12T18:26:54Z")
Really, I am expecting it to be rather slow with how much data I am throwing at it. My worry is most of the tools I have seen store every “word” in memory. The dataset I am loading up is an experiment with using text clouds on data sets that are not really “words” so to speak. Thing of running strings on a binary, then loading that output in. That is similar to what I am doing, just on a larger scale. If I was doing real words, I would totally agree with you about so many words out there. In this case however, it will be a bit different. As for a fancy word/phrase frequency table, yeah, pretty much that just with a fancier output. Thanks Jim ----- Original Message ---- From: Jano S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) To: ruby-talk ML [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:24:25 AM Subject: Re: Text/Tag Cloud generation On 10/12/07, Jim Og [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I need a tool which can process multiple Gig of data, without crashing, > and output a text cloud. Isn’t a text cloud just a fancy word/phrase frequency table, or am I missing something here? If it indeed is, how fast do you need it to be? I wouldn’t worry about stability, but speed instead… There can be only so many words there. J. ``` ____________________________________________________________________________________ ``` Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. [http://autos.yahoo.com/new\_cars.html](http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html)