Make a word cloud from a text

Question

The code should take text from standard input:

The definition of insanity is quoting the same phrase again and again and not expect despair.

The output should be a PNG file containing the word cloud corresponding to that text:

The above word cloud was created using a specialized online application and it filtered the word The and other common words (of, is, and, not, and the). Since this is code golf, the common words will not be filtered and I leave secondary aesthetics of the word cloud to the choice of each coder. Unlike the image exampled here, no words should be excluded, common or otherwise. The definition of a word is defined below.

In this case a word is anything alpha-numeric; numbers are not acting as separators. So, for example, 0xAF qualifies as a word. Separators will be anything that is not alpha-numeric, including .(dot) and -(hyphen). Thus i.e. or pick-me-up would result in 2 or 3 words, respectively. Should be case sensitive - This and this would be two different words, ' would also be separator so wouldn and t will be 2 different words from wouldn't.

The tags should appear clustered but not overlapping and the font size should be directly proportional to the number of occurrences of that word in the text. The word should appear only once. Specific font color is not required in this case. Semantic association is not a requirement.

Hint - This other code golf could help: Count the words in a text and display them

Answer 1

Python 3, 363 308 293 274 characters

import os,sys,re,collections as C
c=C.Counter()
n=sys.argv[1]
o="graph d{"
for w in re.findall("\w*",open(n).read()):c[w]+=1
for w,x in c.most_common(75)[1:]:o+="%s[fontsize=%s,shape=none];"%(w,x/5)
open(n+'.dot','w').write(o+"}")
os.system("fdp -Tpng %s.dot>%s.png"%(n,n))

Call it like this: python cloud.py file.txt. The script uses Graphviz's fdp force-directed graph generator to generate the image (it will spit out a GraphViz file to file.txt.dot and a PNG image file to file.txt.png). This means you'll need to have Graphviz installed.

The image above is the cloud it makes of Shakespeare's Hamlet - you can tell, since it contains "To be or not to be". There's also some delightful nonsense to be found:

It is, to You and I, the Ham of ^{Not thatO lord have us, what now...}

Answer 2

JAVASCRIPT 473

var wordCloud=function(e){var t=e.split(/[\s-.,;]+/);var n={},r;for(r in t){var i=t[r];n[i]=n[i]+1||1}var s=document;var o=s.createElement("canvas");o.width=600;o.height=400;o.style.display="none";s.body.appendChild(o);var u=o.getContext("2d");var a=0,f=50;for(var i in n){u.font=n[i]*50+"px monospace";u.fillText(i,a,f+n[i]*5);a+=i.length*n[i]*50;if(a>o.width*.6){a=0;f+=n[i]*5+100}}var l=o.toDataURL("image/png");var c=s.createElement("img");c.src=l;s.body.appendChild(c)}

Ungolfed demo

wordCloud("string;abc,test-omg shouldn't test omg lalala. s2 s2 s2")