http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html shifting libraries at the speed of byte Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:26:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1543 Pages tagged "just" Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:20:15 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1543 [...] bookmarks tagged just Tag Clouds Aren’t Just for Folksonomies Anymore saved by 3 others     Urmean15 bookmarked on 01/31/08 | [...] […] bookmarks tagged just Tag Clouds Aren’t Just for Folksonomies Anymore saved by 3 others     Urmean15 bookmarked on 01/31/08 | […]

]]> http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1544 Power in programming, and another research idea I’ll never have time to get into « Information Musings Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:30:27 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1544 [...] my random research idea stems from this post over at The Shifted Librarian, which is a reference to another post altogether regarding using tag cloud mechanisms for [...] […] my random research idea stems from this post over at The Shifted Librarian, which is a reference to another post altogether regarding using tag cloud mechanisms for […]

]]> http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1559 Andy Havens Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:22:55 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1559 Yeah. Tag clouds are a great data visualization method. The free Web service many eyes (http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app) lets you upload data and visualize it as a tag cloud or a bunch of other types of graphs. Some very cool stuff on their site. Yeah. Tag clouds are a great data visualization method. The free Web service many eyes (http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app) lets you upload data and visualize it as a tag cloud or a bunch of other types of graphs. Some very cool stuff on their site.

]]> http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1578 ResearchBuzz » » ResearchBuzz Roundup 02022008 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:44:30 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1578 [...] State of the Union as Tag Cloud. Thanks Shifted Librarian! [...] […] State of the Union as Tag Cloud. Thanks Shifted Librarian! […]

]]> http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1635 K.G. Schneider Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:20:08 +0000 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/01/30/tag-clouds-arent-just-for-folksonomies-anymore.html#comment-1635 Maybe the point is that some uses of tag clouds are more valuable/appropriate than others, depending on your user communities and the data you're visualizing. Stretching the sparse metadata of MARC records into a cloud yields results that are frankly quite odd and I suspect usability testing would prove somewhat distracting. Maybe the point is that some uses of tag clouds are more valuable/appropriate than others, depending on your user communities and the data you’re visualizing. Stretching the sparse metadata of MARC records into a cloud yields results that are frankly quite odd and I suspect usability testing would prove somewhat distracting.

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