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Tag Clouds

Tag Clouds. Reading the poetic interface. Jeremy Douglass. Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University of California San Diego New Reading Interfaces Modern Language Association, Chicago 2007. Jeremy Douglass. Researcher, Software Studies Initiative

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Tag Clouds

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  1. Tag Clouds Reading the poetic interface

  2. Jeremy Douglass Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University of California San Diego New Reading Interfaces Modern Language Association, Chicago 2007

  3. Jeremy Douglass Researcher, Software Studies Initiative University of California San Diego http://jeremydouglass.com jeremydouglass@gmail.com

  4. ?

  5. Tag clouds are

  6. Tag clouds areweb navigation interfaces

  7. Tag clouds arecharacterized bydense clusters ('clouds')of text

  8. Tag clouds aremade up ofweighted terms (tags) such as keywords

  9. "-ogue" Jean Véronis (2005)

  10. photography tag cloud (Flickr)

  11. alphabetically?

  12. bookmark tag cloud (del.icio.us)

  13. buzzword tag cloud (from wikipedia)

  14. chaos aesthetics vs.useful interface

  15. 'cloud' vs.weighted list

  16. flickrfiesta invitation (Flickr)

  17. spatially distributed text art

  18. Word News (Benjamin Fischer, 2005)

  19. The size of each word is proportional to the number of times it's mentioned in current news stories.

  20. “ ” «Wordnews» focuses on systematics for the interpretation and visual display of textual information. As a first example the current news headlines of several leading international news sources are being analysed and displayed. The output tries to visualise meaning according to calculations on the quantitative occurrence of words. Like a seismograph the application registers amplitudes and eruptions in current world-news headlines.

  21. TextArc

  22. txtKit

  23. Context Tree

  24. Context Tree isa series of animationsof fractal poems…

  25. Context Tree isa software frameworkfor creatingfractal poetry

  26. fractal fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is(at least approximately)a reduced-size copy of the whole. “ ” — Benoît Mandelbrot

  27. The Mandelbrot set

  28. fractal poetry • complex and self-similar • visual and spatial • words or letters are arranged as primitives

  29. Context Tree renders the story into a word list with probabilities/ Markov chain

  30. Gamer Theory2.0 … Gamer Textually McKenzie Wark (2007)

  31. Ballad collection of Samuel Pepys … PepysViz Tassie Gniady 2007

  32. The Libraryof Babel Jorge Luis Borges (1941) … Babel Spiral

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