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So I have been looking for a steady 40-hour-a-week job, but given the economy I have not had much luck. And I had spent a lot of time on my résumé’s layout, font selection, colors, length, etc. I was very careful, and being the analytical fool that I am, I also wanted to see my information in a visual way. That’s when I found Wordle!

A visual representation of words. Or, as it says on the website, it is “a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide.”

There’s more that you can do now, but—when I found the site—all you had to do was upload some text and the Java applet creates a visual representation of the text. The words that repeat often are more prominent than those that do not. You can also edit the font style, colors, and layout of the final “cloud.”

When looking at MY jumbled cloud of words, the most prominent are ONLINE and TEXAS. This intrigued me because I am a visual person. Also, I am looking for a job the Internet industry in Texas, so it appears that I am focusing the repetition of those words properly (indicated by their size in this wordle).

I created this particular wordle of my résumé more than six months ago. Now, the site seems to have more options to customize the weights of certain words or phrases and to apply certain HEX colors to them. Visit wordle.net to create your own!

Tags: art, create, design, information, information design, resume, visual, wordle

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