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Someday, some clever person will do a statistical analysis of the frequency of words contained in different user guides to help us gain a better understanding of how to make the best user guide possible. In the meantime, we can use Wordle<\/a> to give us a glimpse into a few user manuals.<\/p>\n

Wordle generates \u201cword clouds\u201d from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. To get it to analyse a complete guide, your documentation needs to be online and contain a RSS feed. Here are some Word clouds for three companies that provide RSS feeds to their documentation:<\/p>\n

Autodesk (Autocad)<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Mindtouch<\/h3>\n\"\"\n

Atlassian (Confluence)<\/h3>\n

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\nWhat is surprising is the lack of commonality – very few words seem to be popular across the three examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someday, some clever person will do a statistical analysis of the frequency of words contained in different user guides to help us gain a better understanding of how to make the best user guide possible. In the meantime, we can use Wordle to give us a glimpse into a few user manuals. 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