The Virtual Handshake

I’ve seen this concept done before around blog tagging, but I found this particular application of it pretty intriguing:

Most Popular 50 Words on Ecademy

Ecademy uses a concept called “50 Words” in people’s profiles. The idea is that with 50 words – generally nouns, adjectives and maybe a couple of short phrases (i.e., not prose) – you can pretty well describe your identity. It’s basically your personal keywords. The visualization above shows the most popular keywords that people use, rendering the most popular in the largest fonts. The result is a very right-brain view of Ecademy’s demographics as opposed to the more left-brain ordered list or chart. Intriguing.