Ideas worth talking about.

word play

I've been playing with Wordle. Above is a 'word cloud' from this blog's feed. It allows you to tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. And the images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can play with it here. Send me a link if you make something cool.

beautiful data

Data doesn't have to be boring. Above is a collection of images from Visual Complexity with links to 460 projects. Also, Mashable has a nice review of 16 data visualization tools (some of which I hadn't see before). You may have seen Hans Roslings speech at the TED conference where he enthusiastically demonstrated Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software. Google recently bought Trendalyzer and has a live test site here (it's fun to play with). Of course Swivel is cool too.