Irish higher education: the hunt for the right words
This is the word cloud for the Hunt Report on Irish higher education (National Strategy for Higher Education). It confirms the group’s focus on structures and process rather than content.
Tags: Hunt report, National Strategy for Higher Education
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February 10, 2011 at 1:50 pm
The day will come when reports etc, are going to be composed working backwards from a word cloud!
February 10, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Al, how can you be sure that isn’t already the case?
February 10, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Your right, definitely.
A modern blooms taximony for the unconfident!
February 10, 2011 at 5:46 pm
would have saved a lot of paper (and time) just to publish the wordle cloud!
February 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Great toy for generating word clouds here: http://www.wordle.net/ and http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/tagxedo/#
Here it is used to analyse Obama’s speech
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tag_clouds_of_obamas_inaugural_speech_compared_to_bushs.php#
In a visualization obsessed age like ours and considering all its various applications (from health to architecture and art) why not visualizing words as well??
One of my favourites contemporary philosphers Bruno Latour has brilliantly stressed the link between visualization and cognition in http://www.bruno-latour.fr/articles/article/21-DRAWING-THINGS-TOGETHER.pdf
February 11, 2011 at 7:00 pm
I love that the word ‘universities’ is so small. Says a lot.