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Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Tag Cloud

The TagCloud application allows a user to see a visual representation of an RSS feed. It shows a visualization of the labels used within a feed, using size to indicate frequency and closeness to other tags showing frequency of co-occurrence. This means that tags that occur often together (for example “Silverlight” and “Xaml”) will tend to appear next to each other, whilst tags that don’t occur together in the feed (for example “Silverlight” and “Credit Crunch”) will tend to be far apart. Colour is also used to group the tag cloud, with the most frequently occurring tags taking a colour, and co-occurring tags inheriting that colour. This visually groups the cloud by colour as well. Mouse-Over a tag shows lines to all other tags that it has occurred with, and clicking presents a popup menu of posts that mention that tag. Clicking on an item in the menu navigates to that post.
You can also click and drag a tag for fun, and watch all the other tags chase it..

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