Fun with Visualization

In my reading this morning, Chicagoist had a post which alerted me to Wordle.  We’ve been using word clouds in some of the flyers we’ve been making lately.  (And by we, I mean Ana and her excellent work.) Wordle is a quick and effortless way to make clouds that you are then free to do anything you like with.

For some geeky fun, I took the C++ source code (and header file) to librets::RetsSession from the libRETS source code, and generated a could. Who woulda that that in C/C++ return was the most recurring word? Okay, yeah, EVERYBODY.  Click on the image for a larger view.

1 Response to “Fun with Visualization”


  1. 1 Steve Krzysiak

    I think I may just start sending my resume turned word cloud to random craigslist job postings. I’m not looking for a job, but it could be some fun…. Thanks for neat geekery!

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