Visual representations / Word clouds

As you like have gathered if you follow this blog often, I like images. I saw a mosaic of words weighted by their frequency of use in the recent federal government throne speech. It fires my imagination to view information in new ways.

Yesterday I saw one ranking different health supplements against a "worth it" line. I couldn't help but check it out when I saw the url listed as http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/

Snake oil? Oh pahleeze! I love it. In the upper right hand corner there is a tab to click on that allows one to play around with the data. I also love that the data sources are quoted.

Here's one on what the Chinese government censors online. Tremendous.

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