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How Do You Scale a Tag Cloud?

3 pointsby python_kissabout 18 years ago

3 comments

dfrankeabout 18 years ago
Like this:<p>#tagcloud { height: 0%; width: 0%; }<p>That's about the proper scale.
staunchabout 18 years ago
I think the simple approach of raising the threshold works pretty well. Spend time improving the metric used by the threshold -- make that part smart. Think about how the reddit home page works, where there's a similar problem: too many good links.
dpapathanasiouabout 18 years ago
Here's a technique using power law distributions: <a href="http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds">http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds</a>