Visual Strategy: Wordles

One of the strengths of visual strategy is helping to see patterns where there is a lot of complexity. This week's blog uses a visual strategy called wordle to explore The Daniel Mosaic. Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Wordles are easy to create. I will walk you through the basic steps that I used. After selecting my text (the combination of all the text from thirty blogs), I went to www.wordle.net and pasted it into the text box. I then pressed go and the website automatically created my wordle. Next, I kept pressing the randomize button until I found one in a format that I liked. Then I saved it. This is what it looks like. 

You can see the key words and phrases that emerged most often by the size of the text. If you are interested in reading more about any of them, you can click on the links below and they will take you to that post. 

It is amazing how a simple visual strategy can simplify and bring out patterns, something that is helpful in our increasingly complex world. I hope that it is something that you find useful as you put the pieces of your dream together. 

At Hand
Authenticity
Change
Core Values
Curiosity
Dreams
Escapes
Growth
Knower or Learner
Mentors
Personal Vision
Perspective
Planting & Harvesting
Reflection
Roots & Fruit
Story
Unlikely Calls
Words