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Re: Word Cloud Generator

by Yuji Shinozaki :: Rate this Message:

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A totally tangential question:

Is there any research or expert opinion that speaks to how effective  
tag clouds are?

I have seen them and tried to use them in blogs and wiki's, but have  
yet to find them useful (or compelling after the initial curiosity  
wears off).

That said, these are probably the most attractive tags clouds I have  
come across.

yuji
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On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Eli Cochran wrote:

> Stumbled on this today, http://wordle.net/
>
> It generates a very attractive "word cloud" based on the frequency  
> of words in a source document.
>
> I ran the Fluid Web site through it, and the wiki. Interesting  
> results.
>
> I think this is mostly just a toy, but I do wonder if it is an  
> interesting way of evaluating site content.
>
> - Eli
>
> <wiki.fluidproject.org.words.png>
>
>
> <fluidproject.org.words.png>
> . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .   .    .      .         .              .  
>                    .
>
> Eli Cochran
> user interaction developer
> ETS, UC Berkeley
>
>
> <wiki.fluidproject.org.words.png><fluidproject.org.words.png>
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