[Sigia-l] Tag Clouds in Print

[Ziya Oz]

Jonathan Baker-Bates:

> On a slightly more analytical note about the size of the tags in the
> cloud...

Assuming a tag cloud is a distribution of weight representation, it's not
always clear what the basis for scale is. For instance:

Tag/Count

Scenario #1
A   1
B   10

Scenario #2
A   1
B   10
C   1
D   1
E   1
F   1
G   1
H   1
I   1
J   1

Scenario #3
A   1
B   10
C   1
D   1
E   1
F   1
G   10
H   1
I   1
J   1

What should the scale of B be in each Scenario? Are they the same? If not,
how exactly do you convey the difference? If you have to offer elaborate
explanation for methodology, is it still useful? Etc.

Ziya
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