As we go through the development process for the Real Time Wine product release (we're hoping June 2012), I wanted to keep y'all up to date on interesting things that pop out. I've been waiting to see the content we have so far ( 1000+ consumer wine reviews ) in a workable data format. It'll take some time before we see the full "big data" power of Real Time Wine interactions - but for the moment, we can already see some interesting trends arising from light semantic analysis of the review text. Check it. A word cloud (the larger the word, the more frequent its use) of the first 250 reviews: To be fair, the first 200 or so reviews were mostly by me - but I love visualisations like this. Words popping out: like - very consumer orientated, I like this, I don't like this fruit, fruity smells, tastes - have always said a good structure for a review is "smells like, tastes like, feels like" light, spicy berries, chocolate, creamy - I w