Monday, February 02, 2009

CV Tagcloud

While looking for new data visualization tools on internet, I came across wordle which essentially is an online tag cloud creator.
Using wordle one can create tagclouds from any blog, web site or any chunk of text supplied by user.
Moreover, it is possible to fine tune the way tag cloud is displayed using various options like:
  • Tag orientations.
  • Tag Fonts.
  • Color schemes
  • Number of tags etc.
To see it action, I created a tag cloud based on my current Resume. Wordle generated tag cloud from this, shown below:


I think it's pretty cool application and is quite usefule with Tag Clouds gaining more and more popularity as an alternate way to quickly visualize information loaded in large chunks of texts.
I wish it offered a tighter control over the tags words which appear in the clouds. This way more the conveyed information can be more precise and relevant.



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