[Sigia-l] Tag Clouds in Print

Jonathan Baker-Bates Jonathan.Baker-Bates at lbi.com
Mon Jan 8 04:46:21 EST 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Ziya Oz
> Sent: 05 January 2007 19:31
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Tag Clouds in Print
> 
> 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. 

Indeed, in fact I should have made the point that the utility of a tag
cloud is fundamentally based on whether the user understands how it's
created. In fact that's true of a great deal of graphical communication
of data :-)

Jonathan


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