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visual representation for text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata (tags) on websites, or to visualize free form text

A tag cloud is a visual representation of text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata i.e., frequency, weights, relevance or importance. The differences are made aware using font colors and/or sizes, where a lighter, more brilliant color or a bigger size usually refers to more relevant tags, and vice versa.

Tag clouds are used to display the most prominent concepts or keywords in a site or domain as the visual appeal helps distinguish the relationship among the tags; or as a way to explore a site by linking tags to related content.

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Algorithm to implement a word cloud like Wordle

Context Take a look at Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/ It's much better looking than any other word cloud generators I've seen Note: the source is not available - read the FAQ: http://www.wordle.net/faq#code My Questions Is there an algorithm…
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What's the best way to generate a tag cloud from an array using h1 through h6 for sizing?

I have the following arrays: $artist = array("the roots", "michael jackson", "billy idol", "more", "and more", "and_YET_MORE"); $count = array(5, 3, 9, 1, 1, 3); I want to generate a tag cloud that will have artists with a higher number in $count…
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Optimal data architecture for tagging, clouds, and searching (like StackOverflow)?

I'd love to know how Stack Overflow's tagging and search is architected, because it seems to work pretty well. What is a good database/search model if I want to do all of the following: Storing Tags on various entities, (how normalized? i.e.…
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What is the formula to calculate the font-size for tags in a tagcloud?

I have a tag cloud and I need to know how can I change the font-size for the most used tags. I need to set a min-font-size and a max-font-size.
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Interesting tag cloud implementations

What is the most interesting tag cloud implementation that you know? I'm searching for something easy to work with but somewhat non-standard. I know of WP-Cumulus 3D tag cloud, I'm interested in an interesting implementation - not necessarily in…
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how can one increase size of plotted area wordclouds in R

trying to replicate the example here; http://onertipaday.blogspot.com/2011/07/word-cloud-in-r.html Need help figuring out how to increase the plotted area of the word cloud. Changing the height and width parmeters in png("wordcloud_packages.png",…
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Tag Cloud in C#

I am making a small C# application and would like to extract a tag cloud from a simple plain text. Is there a function that could do that for me?
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"tag cloud" generators?

I would like to add a "tag cloud" to a project I'm working on. I see tons of them via google, but they seem to mostly be "enter an url" type. Here's an example of what I mean: I'm looking for one which either has either a nice web-accessible…
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How do I create link of each word in d3 cloud?

I am using D3 Cloud to build a word cloud. Here is the sample code: