My name is Paulo Coelho. I am a creative with a Master degree in HCI from Carnegie Mellon University.

I am from Madeira Island, Portugal and my background is in Computer Science.

This portfolio aims not only to show my skills but to share with the world some knowledge. Because of this, I decided to throw some tutorials in the mix too.

paulojtcoelho[at]gmail[dot]com

Visualizing Words

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Different Words is a software I created as part of a challenge given to me by a company I was applying to. It is a word processing software that takes text and transforms it into a infographic as shown below.

The program gathers all unique words in the given text and does three things

1. Orders them lexicographically. The columns are ordered by the first letter and the rest by the remaining letters in each word
2. Identifies each word and tries to bucket it into one of four categories: Noun, Verb, Adjective, Other. There is also not found for those that can be identified (like typos or other strange words).

It is made in FLEX running on AIR. Unfortunately, I can’t release the software. But I can show you a screen cap