Most of us, I am sure, are familiar with Tag Clouds. But do they offer any real value? Wordle is just one example of a number of tools available on the Web for analyzing text for the most frequently-used words and presenting the results as a Tag Cloud.
The example above is Wordle’s analysis of Barak Obama’s inauguration speech. Is it a useful indicator of his priorities? Would we be better off reading the transcript in its entirety? Do we have the time? Is this the public face of ‘people’s KO’?
Thanks to UKeiG‘s journal eLucidate Vol. 6 Issue 2, April 2009 for bringing my attention to this.
