The paper discusses about the well known historical topic tag clouds, variety of inputs to and usage patterns. Historical evolvement of tag clouds , and their usage in aggregation of tags and analytical data were good to read. Agreeing to author that when it started analyzing documents, it was more of word cloud , and to the fact that tag clouds help search for specific items in the display.
I believe that tag clouds have changed the information visualizations deeply as the authors have suggested but considering the fact that it was discovered long back there has not been a significant improvement to the field. I think its because of the complexity of word representation. Even though tag clouds do not belong to the visualization field fully I would like it to be part of the info viz as it helps analyze huge amount of data in a summarized way. Though its a vernacular visualization it has moved the entire infoviz industry is what I believe.
I believe that tag clouds have changed the information visualizations deeply as the authors have suggested but considering the fact that it was discovered long back there has not been a significant improvement to the field. I think its because of the complexity of word representation. Even though tag clouds do not belong to the visualization field fully I would like it to be part of the info viz as it helps analyze huge amount of data in a summarized way. Though its a vernacular visualization it has moved the entire infoviz industry is what I believe.
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