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How Do You Scale a Tag Cloud?

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-04-09-n73.html

by python_kiss • 19 years ago

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dfranke• 19 years ago

Like this:

#tagcloud { height: 0%; width: 0%; }

That's about the proper scale.

staunch• 19 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.

dpapathanasiou• 19 years ago

Here's a technique using power law distributions: http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds

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