More Sticky Stats

Here are some great resources for delivering data while also energizing our audience.

• http://www.wordle.net
• http://www.jamiekeddie.com/602 - Here's a trick on how to keep select words close to one another in the wordle. 
• http://tagul.com/ - This site allows you to make specific shapes and clickable wordles (free registration required).
• http://guessthewordle.pbworks.com/ - This site makes a daily 'guess the wordle' puzzle - great idea for us to use for RAM presentations.
• http://languagesresources.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/23-ways-to-use-wordle-in-the-mfl-classroom/ - Here are 23 ways to use wordles some of which apply to our purposes; we like #23 for brainstorming sessions, initially planning, etc. 

We hope you find it useful in your reports and presentations!

The Steve Rubel Lifestream: Stats: The Internet in Charts (9/16/09)

The "Did You Know?" video managed to hook kishores/kishoris in the summer shibir, but aside from the cool music and smooth transitions, it was just numbers!

As a karyakar, we may invariably face that situation where you're tasked with presenting a document of sorts at [insert "three-letter acronym for a meeting" here]. To keep our audience engaged, check out this post.

We know you can crunch the data, but let's see if you can communicate it.

Link: http://www.steverubel.com/stats-the-internet-in-charts

(Image from Digital Inspiration)