ManyEyes and a HuffPo word cloud
It’s amazing what kind of great data visualizations you can create with IBM’s web statistics tool Many Eyes (I’ve used it before). The Many Eyes team has recently added a simple concordancing function so that you can see in what context a given word is used. People doing literary studies can do some interesting things with such a tool, as this word cloud from the ME site demonstrates.
While I was already at it, I decided to create a word cloud for HuffingtonPost.com using 2175 entries made in the last six months. You get a fairly clear idea of the topics that were central in that time by looking at the cloud. In case you were wondering - the terms appear so large because I used the top 50 words with their individual frequencies instead of a raw text.
