Thursday, October 08, 2009

Visual Data redux

I remembered Wordle and I thought I should try it out again. There ought to be a lot of changes since that last one. Although I think much of the stuff has been focused on my post regarding helping Philippine Ondoy victims. (Or it probably just takes data from the newest posts. I did try giving it the RSS feed for my blog but it churned out the same thing. Check it out yourself:


Wordled (Oct 8, 2009), courtesy of http://www.wordle.net



Here's another interesting result from one of the users of the site. This now is the result of Homer's Odyssey. 'Father' is the most numerously used word in the text.
Wordle: book 1 odyssey

Speaking of words in visual form, I remember one site I've found to benefit and/or be of interest to many of us. The site author culls information/data/statistics and transforms them to images that will immediately show us the relation of each one to the other. Take for example (see below), his most recent work on the proportion of male/female usage of social networking sites (and can you believe the number of social networking sites out there, with more adding every minute?). The conclusion is that chicks rule because of the majority of the sites where matriarchy is the norm. As the site's name suggests, information is indeed beautiful.

photo courtesy of David McCandless of www.information is beautiful.net

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