Want to learn more about how to set up and manage a user research program within your organization? If so, you are humbly encouraged to vote for our panel for inclusion in next year’s SxSW: Developing Super Senses: Tools to Know Your Users. My partners in crime are Mark Trammell (Digg), Carla Borsoi (Ask.com), Andy Budd (Clearleft), and Nate Bolt (Bolt | Peters).
Vote early! Vote often! And if we make it, come prepared with good questions!
A friend who tends to do very interesting (and often confidential) research about media just sent me this lovely diagram. Of what, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine.
Said friend writes: “That’s a charmingly normal distribution… I love it when, every now and then, data turns out exactly like you want it to… I actually know what’s going on in the data, and what X and Y represent… I just can’t talk about it.”
I’m intrigued.
Wordle has been making the rounds lately but I’ve just gotten in to mess around with it — and it’s fabulous.
Here is a Wordle rendering of all of my del.icio.us tags:
Sure, it’s just a tag cloud. But, because the final layout is so well done and the creation interface is so thoughtfully put together, the data can be manipulated and understood in a way that wouldn’t be possible with traditional tag clouds.
