December 10th, 2006

Emerging topics

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You might have seen the tag clouds posted below. I calculate tag positions based on co-occurrence, such that tags used together are placed closer to each other. Additionally, tags are scaled áccording to frequency.
A general problem I have with the resulting representation (and common tag clouds as well) is the fact, that every tag occurrence is weighted equally. As a result, these tag clouds never represent the current state of interest, but a very sluggishly changing summary of your archive. However, your interests and the corresponding vocabulary keeps moving on.
So I am currently investigating trends in tag clouds and how groups of related tags emerge and disappear again.

A first glimpse into the dynamical nature of tag structures.

4 Responses to 'Emerging topics'

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  1. norrix
    December 11th, 2006 at 2:11 pm

    hi, anscheinend hab ich zu viele tags oder ähnliches. wenn ich meine animation ansehen will, bekomme ich immer die meldung vom flash-player, dass ein skript den rechner verlangsamt. also halt ein typisches zeichen für entweder zuviele daten oder eine endlosschleife.

  2. Moritz Stefaner
    December 13th, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    Thanks for the note, I have the same problem and will fix it soon. Most probably you just tagged too much :)

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    January 22nd, 2007 at 10:50 pm

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