Word Maps - Many Eyes
I went over to experiment with ManyEyes. And I really liked the following output of the addendum intro text I tested earlier. It is interesting that this is ManyEyes’ inclusion of wordle in their repertoire of visualization tools.
Here is the tag cloud version for two word series of the same text as above. I find it less visually interesting but users can scroll over a word to see its use frequency times. In the end both are useful as they help you interpret text in different ways.
Here is the proposal introduction using the same tool.
and again using tag clouds
I am going to have to see how I can incorporate this way of seeing text into my work. It was useful to experiment with a text that I know well. I am guessing this might be a nice way to look at paper abstracts, or if writing a proposal one image could have the call for proposal text and the other the answer to the call and compare the two. Might also be handy when writing to see where one is focusing as one is moving forward. Hmmm!
