Key word/word cloud feature?

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  1. Orca

    Orca Grand Pooh-Bah (4,710) Sep 18, 2010 Washington
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    I don't know if this is even technicaly feasible, but a feature I think would be pretty cool is either a listing or a "word cloud" for each beer that shows all the words that most frequently appear in the reviews for that beer. Certain neutral words would have to be excluded (pour, taste, aroma, head etc.) so that the more useful descriptors would rise to the top of the list. Then when you clicked on a beer's profile, you would instantly see the adjectives that are most commonly used to describe that beer. If this worked the way it does in my mind, it would be great to see a quick text "snapshot" of each beer, basically summarizing all the most common descriptors of that beer at a glance right next to the overall score.

    Related to this, maybe there would also be a search field where we could type in a key word or combination of key words and it would instantly pull up all the beers for which that word or words is used most frequently. So you type in "grapefruit" or "pine" or "molasses" and generate a listing of all the beers with the most reviews containing that word. There's probably some kind of algorithm that could be applied such that it ranked the beers by some kind of average, such that the most reviewed beers (naturally with the most total words in the database) would always come up.

    Possible? Desirable?
     
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  2. UCLABrewN84

    UCLABrewN84 Initiate (0) Mar 18, 2010 California

    I think this was mentioned somewhere in the past. Not too sure if it was a user request or something the Bros were discussing.
     
  3. Orca

    Orca Grand Pooh-Bah (4,710) Sep 18, 2010 Washington
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    I thought so too—at least something similar to this—but I searched the forums and came up empty. Maybe it was in the old forum.
     
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    Hop_Dinosaur Initiate (0) Sep 15, 2014

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  5. SoCalBeerIdiot

    SoCalBeerIdiot Pooh-Bah (2,191) Mar 10, 2013 California
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    Very, very desirable! I suggested something very similar but I made the mistake of putting hashtags in front of the descriptors and got some blowback from people who thought they were being funny (and whose comments, I just noticed, have since been deleted).

    http://www.beeradvocate.com/communi...em-for-targeted-searches.182170/#post-2517425

    I feel like this would be a very cool, and very unique, beer discovery tool that I've not seen on any other site or app.
     
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