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RE: Tag Cloud Makeup Continued

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:14:39 GMT

I have to write it for you, because I haven't read it anywhere, I just constructed the equation myself. Here you go: Let's say you want your your tags in sizes from 1 to 10, according to their counts. I'll use pseudocode here. You define boundaries: pmin <- 1 pmax <- 10 Then you calculate the min and max values from your tags: vmin <- min(values) vmax <- max(values) Now, let's say you have a tag with 'x' occurences. The log-size of your tag is: int((pmax - pmin) * (log(x)) / (log(vmax)) + pmin) - 1 reply

RE: Tag Cloud Makeup

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:27:13 GMT

What I dislike about current tagclouds is that there is ONE HUGE TAG, and 90% of the remainig tags are very small. It looks like the cloud is 90% trash. I suggest: - Filtering out the least frequent tags - Applying a logarightm function to the tag sizes. It will reduce the graphical domination of the most frequent tags. I did it with my project: http://automatthias.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/size-and-color/ and it works fine. - 2 replies