I don’t even drink the stuff …

As shown in my last blog post, my first dataviz experiment (in all it’s simplicity) was quite revealing – which I think is what you want from a dataviz.  I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the findings however, and we need to set the record straight ….. I’m just really not that interested in ‘caffeinated beveridges’.

So, thank you Wordle for highlighting this dire situation, which has prompted me to make a few changes to a previous blog post, before whipping up a shiny, new word cloud of my blog (any excuse really).

When I grow up I wanna be a dataviz whiz

So I’ve been looking at lots of examples of data visualisations, played around with a few simple data visualisation tools, and have started chasing up the kind of data I want to communicate to the masses. 

I’m not sure how it’s all meant to come together yet, but in the meantime I did enjoy creating a few text based images in Wordle.  This was no major victory though, as it was created in less than a minute, by placing the url to my blog in a box and clicking on a button. 

I did another one on a blog about cars, as I wanted to see if a big V8 or hemi appeared amongst the text, but it turns out that it was actually more about girls.  So not only was this amusing, but it also demonstrated how effective and useful a word cloud is in getting the heart of the matter.