tag clouds

Weighted term displays

Tag clouds are visual displays of words or phrases where size indicates frequency or importance—the more prominent a term, the larger it appears.

Popular on websites in the 2000s for showing trending topics or categorizing content, they've largely fallen out of fashion as a design element.

The blog's tag cloud made "politics" and "technology" the most prominent terms.

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Wordle · data visualization · text · infographics · visualization · graphic design · semantic analysis · cognitive load · clustering · typography · spatial arrangement · natural language processing · hierarchy · digital communication · text mining · grow · color · hashtags

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Opposites
data visualization type

tag cloudsbar chart

Rectangular data visualization

data table · spreadsheet · line graph · pie chart · scatter plot

information organization approach

tag cloudsalphabetical index

Organized term finder

table of contents · outline · tree structure · numbered list · bullet list

data precision

tag cloudsraw data

Unanalyzed collected information

structured data

Family

tag, cloud, tags, tagged, tagging, tagger, clouds, cloudy, cloudiness

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Concrete · Rated G