Reddit User Chknbone dropped this little New Year’s present the other day and I thought it was too cool to leave unshared.

It’s a flow chart of the Ice Cube song Today Was A Good Day (NSFW Language). Classic rap makes for some amusing grammar and linguistic feats, and seeing it mapped out here is a good laugh, not to mention an amusing stretch of the flowchart metaphor.

So check out the original at flickr, and here’s to more cool stuff in 2009!

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The purpose can vary from highlighting specific relations to contrasting points or use of language, but all of the following methods focus on distilling a volume of text down to a visualization.

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