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Tag cloud

A tag cloud (also known as a word cloud or weighted list in visual design) is a visual representation of text data which is often used to depict keyword metadata on websites, or to visualize free form text. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each tag is shown with font size or color. When used as website navigation aids, the terms are…

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Overview

History

Types

Visual appearance

Data clouds

Collocate clouds

Perception

Creation

Advanced semantic analysis

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Tag cloud

Nodes39
Edges38
Triples44
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.051282
Components1

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Tag cloud

Top relations

related to Perception · 11
Tag cloud → Centering, Exploration, Large, Lohmann, Position, Scanning, Tag, Tags, The, Users, Western
related to Visual appearance · 9
Tag cloud → Edges, Heuristics, HTML, Most, Some, Sometimes, Tag, Tags, The
related to history · 7
Tag cloud → An, Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, English, German, In, The, Web
related to Categorization · 3
Tag cloud → In, Tags, There
related to Creation · 2
Tag cloud → For, In
related to External links · 2
Tag cloud → O'Reilly's ONLamp, Understanding Tag Clouds
related to Types · 2
Tag cloud → In, There
related to Data clouds · 1
Tag cloud → It

Important terminology Word statistics

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Important terminology

tag cloud clouds size used tags word visual font text frequency also data number words items content search user weighted

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
tSNE to position wordsinstance ofSome prefer to cluster the tags semantically so that similar tags will appear near each other or use embedding techniques0.80text
population or stock market pricesinstance ofdisplays data0.80text
common wordsinstance ofa logarithmic representation makes sense.Implementations of tag clouds also include text parsing and filtering out unhelpful tags0.80text
numbersinstance ofa logarithmic representation makes sense.Implementations of tag clouds also include text parsing and filtering out unhelpful tags0.80text
and punctuation.There are also websites creating artificially or randomly weighted tag cloudsinstance ofa logarithmic representation makes sense.Implementations of tag clouds also include text parsing and filtering out unhelpful tags0.80text
for advertisinginstance ofa logarithmic representation makes sense.Implementations of tag clouds also include text parsing and filtering out unhelpful tags0.80text
or for humorous resultsinstance ofa logarithmic representation makes sense.Implementations of tag clouds also include text parsing and filtering out unhelpful tags0.80text
Tag cloudrelated to CategorizationIn0.60section
Tag cloudrelated to CategorizationTags0.60section
Tag cloudrelated to CategorizationThere0.60section
Tag cloudrelated to CreationIn0.60section
Tag cloudrelated to CreationFor0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

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    Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

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