Check out Jeff Clark’s blog at http://neoformix.com for more inspiration, it’s really a showcase of nice visuals based on analytics.

Cheers,

Bob

Cheers,
Domen

P.S. I have to try the one Pablo suggested. If nothing else beacuse of Star Trek :)

The first time I played with a text-based data visualization tool was in 2002 (an off-line one). Its name is Thought View and it was developed by Joseph Woelfel (http://www.communication.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/woelfel/index.shtml) as an add-on of the text analysis program Cat Pac (http://www.galileoco.com/)

I found the reference of it at a Consumer Behaviour textbook. I highly recommend you trying (and playing with) it because:

- It presents “word-clouds” tridimensionally, using advanced statystical analisys to position words-related-to-words.
- You can navigate through it 360° easily… It looks like being “inside” Star Trek outer space. =)
- It is a “text analysis program utilizing artificial neural technology” … “using a unique proprietary algorithm that does not search for previously noted patterns, nor does it apply any rules from any theory. Instead, its unique neural algorithm learns what patterns are in the text as it reads it, just as a human being would. It’s free of theoretical and personal biases, and independent of the language it’s reading. It works in Chinese, or in French, or in Hindi as well as it does in English or Spanish.”

Well, let me also say that David Rojas Elbirt (Argentinian-Bolivian social-education-market researcher) and Sergio Poblete (Chilean consumer ethnographer) introduced me to several online data visualization tools. I just tried a couple of them, and found wordle.net the easiest one. =)

Finally, I like the way you blogg and “play seriously” between poetry, qualitative analisys, consumer culture theory, both business-scholar oriented writing style, online ethnography, “academic activism”, colourful images, etc.

Best wishes,

Pablo