Horoscoped: Visualizing Our Common Future

Jan 25

Jan 25 Horoscoped: Visualizing Our Common Future

Horoscoped: Visualizing Our Common Future infographic

Horoscoped is another cool infographic project from Information Is Beautiful. Scraping the text from over 22,000 horoscopes, a word cloud is created separately for each sign. This visually shows you how common the words used truly are.

As part of their transparency, the team has also done a fantastic job of providing a description of their entire process and links to all of the data and the scripts here and here.

Taking the most common words from all of the horoscopes, they have created the Grand Unifying Horoscope:

Credits:

CONCEPT & RESEARCH: DAVID MCCANDLESS
DESIGN: MATT HANCOCK
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH: MIRIAM QUICK
HACKING: THOMAS WINNINGHAM
SOURCE: YAHOO SHINE HOROSCOPES

Found on Bad Astronomy and Chart Porn.

Randy Krum

Randy Krum is an infographics and data visualization designer, author of the book, “Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design,” and instructor of Infographics and Data Visualization Design at Southern Methodist University's Continuing and Professional Education program (CAPE). Randy also runs the popular website, Coolinfographics.com. Started in 2007, the site has grown into one of the most influential infographic sites online, handling up to 50,000 unique visitors a day. He is the Founder and President of InfoNewt, his design company that designs infographics and visualizations for clients used for both online marketing and internal communications. Randy speaks at conferences, universities, corporate events, and government agencies about infographic design, data visualization methods, visual content marketing, and the effective use of visual information. Learn more at RandyKrum.com

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