Okay, so what I really wanted to do was visualize all of Wikipedia, but seeing as to how less than half of the uncompressed contents filled up the remaining space on my hard drive, I decided to just go ahead and do a visualization of the article on NYU instead.

Visualization of Wikipedia's article on New York University

This word cloud was made with Wordle.

The results were pretty unsurprising; I really wasn’t expecting anything different.  But this is an interesting way to look at text based documents; there is something about the process of turning text into an image that makes it much more consumable in the short term.