A wordle about Concentra

We regularly try to explain our business to people, it seems pretty obvious to me, but maybe that is because I ahve worked at Concentra for over four years.

But since I have found wordles, it seemed obvious to let wordle.net try to explain what we do.

This is a visualisation of the entire contents of our website, and as usual wordle has done a beautiful job of rendering the text from our website in a way that shows exactly what we do every day!

A way with Wordles

We're always looking for the next best way to visualise data, we've read all the books, been on Stephen Few's courses and used all the software out there, but I have to give credit to Jonathon Feinberg for the creation of wordle.net which create beautiful and informative word clouds from text.

We have been using the tool to visualise data, simply but providing a dataset which repeats the category names based on a given measure, it is possible to create great visualisations of say 'Top 20 clients', or 'Best performing sales person'.

Of course these are currently one off visualisations, but I doubt it will be long before a forward thinking data visualisation software tool such as Tableau incorporates this functionality into their toolset.

To demonstrate this tool, here's an image of the top 100 MP expense claimers, of course the size of their name shows how much they claimed: