I’m actually not that big on visualizing data. Some people are textual thinkers, and that’s the category I tend to fall into.  But good visualizations are powerful things, and that’s one reason I like tag clouds – words made into a picture. Everybody’s happy.

Which is why I spent a little too much time last night playing with Wordle, a service that lets you take a bunch of text and make a cloud out of it. Here’s one I made using the RSS feed for the blog:

It looks like we’re pretty interested in open source development, health, and Twitter.