Extending Tag Clouds

After viewing the tag cloud of President Obama's inaugural address compared to the tag clouds of Bush and Clinton's addresses, I realized that tag clouds only really show you one dimension of information. 

Extending the idea to say LinkedIn Proffiles or resumes, you can add multiple layers of information on top of the basic size relevance of tags.

First lets look at my resume as run through Wordie.

 

Sheridan Resume Wordie

Now let's look at the same resume redisplayed as a sequenced tag cloud with time represented on the Y axis:

Resume Ordered Tag Cloud

I can envision many trend identifying visual displays which could improve this first attempt and be used to more succinctly tell a persons career and/or personal story.  The first that come to mind are budget managed over time, people managed over time, and revenue generated over time.