Top Words on Digg

Here is a graphic with the top words in Digg titles over the past month. It provides us with a visual representation of what interests Digg users. The biggest words are pic and video, which says a lot about where people click to most impulsively, stuff they don’t have to read. But the next step down is Apple and iPhone. This shows what an influential juggernaut that company is because those words are roughly equal in size to our country’s top news maker, Barack Obama.

This graphic was created using Wordle, a visualization tool that can show some very distinct trends for the ‘visual learner’ in all of us. Here is a slideshow created about ways to utilize Wordle in the classroom:

 

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