A Typographic Visualization of Every TED Talk, Ever
9,306 hours of culture’s biggest brain cloud, condensed into a tiny word cloud.
We love TED. We love data visualization. We love fun. So we had some fun with crafting our very own semantic representation of TED talks.
The data comes from this excellent spreadsheet of every TED talk available, compiled by an anonymous author. (We stumbled upon it somewhere down the Twitter rabbit hole months ago.) We used Wordle for the cloud visualization and pulled the words from the official title of each talk — a fairly reliable representation of what the talk is actually about.
Although this model is certainly limited and not at all representative of the full breadth of what TED stands for, an essence begins to emerge — it’s highly concerned with innovation and the future, it’s about tackling global issues, and design is a big part of the solution puzzle.
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