Information Visualization Using Wordle

Yesterday, I created a “word cloud” of my post, Quotes from Adaptive Path’s “Subject to Change,” using Wordle (see below for the result).  This is a great example of using technology to visualize non-numerical content – known as information visualization.  To learn more about this topic, from the perspective of the human factors and ergonomics discipline, check out this chapter (2.4 MB, .pdf) from Chris North.

References

North, C. (2006).  Information visualization.  In G. Salvendy (Ed.), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics (3rd ed., pp. 1222-1245).  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.