Thursday, December 15, 2011

Project: A Better Tag Cloud

The Project Description
Word and Tag clouds have been around for a while, but they are often criticized for not offering enough information or enough valuable information. Our team has attempted to improve on a basic tag cloud by offering additional data gathering, text manipulation, and word associativity analysis features, while still keeping the tag cloud fun.

This screenshot, shows the site in action with text scrapped from the vizclass.csc.ncsu.edu blog, with the word "data" clicked on:














The Details

The team: Pamela Ocampa, Juliane Foster, Michael Rountree, Andrea Villanes
The data: Can be gathered from blogs, twitter, or directly copy and pasted into the site


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