I don’t see tag clouds as having a great data-ink ratio, maybe a line or stacked bar chart over time? d3 has some nice interactive options for exploring a lot of info.
I like the /concept/ of tag clouds, but I must admit I’ve never seen one that I find useful in practice. I would much rather see a bar chart, or just two columns with a number in one.
having thought about why I don’t find them useful overnight I think it could be because I find them ambiguous: how much of the size difference is due to the different in word length, and their character heights (uppercase characters look bigger) and how much is due to the frequency? It’s almost impossible to judge. I think if you want a cloud a bubble chart would be clearer.
I don’t know, “security software,” “javascript law,” and “android api” scare me more. “distributed erlang” seems pretty tame if you’re into that though.
I don’t see tag clouds as having a great data-ink ratio, maybe a line or stacked bar chart over time? d3 has some nice interactive options for exploring a lot of info.
I like the /concept/ of tag clouds, but I must admit I’ve never seen one that I find useful in practice. I would much rather see a bar chart, or just two columns with a number in one.
having thought about why I don’t find them useful overnight I think it could be because I find them ambiguous: how much of the size difference is due to the different in word length, and their character heights (uppercase characters look bigger) and how much is due to the frequency? It’s almost impossible to judge. I think if you want a cloud a bubble chart would be clearer.
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“hardware haskell” sounds fun.
Revenge of Lisp Machine, or iAPX 432?
What about “culture databases”?
I don’t know, “security software,” “javascript law,” and “android api” scare me more. “distributed erlang” seems pretty tame if you’re into that though.
“From Haskell to Hardware,” by Conal Elliot: http://conal.net/blog/posts/haskell-to-hardware-via-cccs
No Go?
I used TagCrowd and a Java program to produce the output. I’m not sure what happened to the
gotag. Here’s a bigger tag cloud.@jcs implemented this! It can be found here.
Is there a reason there is no artificial intelligence tag?
I guess
cogscicovers everything from AI and neutral networks to actual brain science.