A friend who tends to do very interesting (and often confidential) research about media just sent me this lovely diagram. Of what, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine.
![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/2718202402_6a4d440e87.jpg)
Said friend writes: “That’s a charmingly normal distribution… I love it when, every now and then, data turns out exactly like you want it to… I actually know what’s going on in the data, and what X and Y represent… I just can’t talk about it.”
I’m intrigued.
Amaztype uses the amazon.com API to pull search results for a given keyword, then returns results in the shape of the search term. My name returns a lot of different editions of Julie of the Wolves.
![amaztype - visual search](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3263/2650181095_416b756d82.jpg)
(Another great find from Kristin.)
Wordle has been making the rounds lately but I’ve just gotten in to mess around with it — and it’s fabulous.
Here is a Wordle rendering of all of my del.icio.us tags:
![Wordle rendering of my del.icio.us tags](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3046/2636215686_e70c642e39.jpg)
Sure, it’s just a tag cloud. But, because the final layout is so well done and the creation interface is so thoughtfully put together, the data can be manipulated and understood in a way that wouldn’t be possible with traditional tag clouds.
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