Each race starts out in a different area in the world, which gives you a reason to play different races. You can have up to ten characters on one server, which means you can try different races and classes (professions). At higher levels in the game I’ll be able to get my own mount. It’s the world that’s compelling – worlds of winter, magical woods, medieval looking towns, crazy mad hatter towns, tropical islands - and I’ve only seen a little of the world! I travel long distances by paying for a ride on a fantastic flying animal. It’s enough that the quest gives me a reason to be out in the world. Sometimes I’m interested, and sometimes I don’t care. There’s always a reason given for me doing the things the quest givers ask me to do. I get rewards in terms of money, advancement in the game, and stuff. I get my quests from the quest givers, wander around the world, deliver packages or secret letters, buy supplies for a party, and kill monsters, angry wildlife, or enemies. There’s always just one more thing you want to do before you log off. Once you get the hang of it, WoW is designed to keep you playing. I regard these games as a meditative experience, so grouping may not be for me. I do like being sociable, sometimes, in a game, but formal grouping is different – it’s structured, and there can be pressure. If I ever decide to group with people I’m going to keep playing a priest, a healer, since they tend to be in demand for groups. My warlocks (a sort of magician) get a demon that helps me defeat my enemies. ![]() My hunters get an animal that adventures with me. I’m now playing classes (professions) that come with “pets”, but they aren’t really pets – they are magical animal companions. I enjoy playing a game that’s beyond trendy, part of popular culture. I may not feel special by playing such a popular game, but this is a good world. The people I come across are either doing their own thing or they are nice to me. I play on an established roleplay server, and all my characters are at a low level, so my world is not crowded. So, it’s me and twelve million people I don’t know. A few people came back for the new expansion, Cataclysm, but then they moved on too. ![]() The people I know have either never played World of Warcraft or they moved on to other games. I’m playing World of Warcraft, a game twelve million people play, except for everyone I know who plays online multiplayer games. I tried a variety of picture formats and took a screenshot of the one I liked. My word cloud captures how my blog looks before July 19, 2014. I generated my word cloud before the last two posts. I wanted wordle to work on what the blog was about. I could not find an easy way to grab all the words from this blog, so I carefully copied my blog posts into a document, eliminating administrative words such as “posted”, dates of the posts, and the words from the columns on the side of my posts. Most importantly, the images it generates are attractive. I decided to use Wordle ( ) to make a pretty picture of this blog. The goal is to make a pretty picture that says something interesting about the document or web site. You omit filler words such as “the”, “and”. Words that are used more often are bigger and have more prominence on the page. You do not do this manually you use an application, a program that count up all the words, and displays the words differently, depending on how often they are used in your source. Wikipedia talks about this in some detail, and includes a formula –. What is the average price of a pint of blueberries in Philadelphia, during July 2014? You get the idea.Ī word cloud, also called a tag cloud, is a data visualization of all the words in a document or a web site. ![]() You can use metrics other than counts, such as averages. “Data” is (often) counts of something, by something – number of sales by product (the oblong widget, the square widget), month and year of the sale, area of the world. Data visualization is the new way of saying that you make your data look like a picture – a chart, a graph, a map overlay, something. I take Facebook surveys – what color would I be if I was a color? I made that one up.Īnd I like data analysis and data visualization. Like many of us I enjoy things that purport to tell me something about me, even if what they tell me does not seem right.
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