http://digitalartscorps.org/taxonomy/term/513/0 en http://digitalartscorps.org/node/508 <p>I've been playing around with tag and word clouds lately. Clouds are basically interesting (and esthetically appealing, in my opinion) ways to visualize the prevalence of words. Words that are more prevalent show up larger/darker than more rare ones. Oftentimes you will see Tag Clouds which show how many posts there are in certain categories (we have one on the <a href="http://ctcvista.org/digest/fall06">CTC VISTA Digest</a>).</p> <p>Below is a word cloud made up of <em>all</em> the posts on CTCVISTA.org. This isn't the categories, but the actual posts themselves. It was created by a very nifty website call <a href="TagCrowd.com">TagCrowd.com</a>.</p> <p>An interesting side note is that, excluding common words (<em>and, like, the, pronouns, etc.</em>), we have a lexicon of 7,369 unique words on the website.</p> <p>&lt;!--<br /> begin tag cloud : generated by TagCrowd.com<br /> Feel free to modify as long as you keep this notice.</p> <p>This code and its rendered image are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.<br /> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/</p> <p>For commercial licensing, contact Daniel Steinbock, daniel@steinbock.org<br /> --></p> <style type="text/css"> &lt;!-- #htmltagcloud{ font-family:'lucida grande',trebuchet,'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height:2.4em; word-spacing:normal; letter-spacing:normal; text-decoration:none; text-transform:none; text-align:justify; text-indent:0ex; background-color:#fff; margin:1em 1em 0em 1em; border:2px dotted #ddd; padding:2em}#htmltagcloud a:link{text-decoration:none}#htmltagcloud a:visited{text-decoration:none}#htmltagcloud a:hover{text-decoration:none;color:white;background-color:#05f}#htmltagcloud a:active{text-decoration:none;color:white;background-color:#03d}span.tagcloud0{font-size:1.0em;padding:0em;color:#ACC1F3;z-index:10;position:relative}span.tagcloud0 a{text-decoration:none; border: none; color:#ACC1F3}span.tagcloud1{font-size:1.4em;padding:0em;color:#ACC1F3;z-index:9;position:relative}span.tagcloud1 a{text-decoration:none;color:#ACC1F3}span.tagcloud2{font-size:1.8em;padding:0em;color:#86A0DC;z-index:8;position:relative}span.tagcloud2 a{text-decoration:none;color:#86A0DC}span.tagcloud3{font-size:2.2em;padding:0em;color:#86A0DC;z-index:7;position:relative}span.tagcloud3 a{text-decoration:none;color:#86A0DC}span.tagcloud4{font-size:2.6em;padding:0em;color:#607EC5;z-index:6;position:relative}span.tagcloud4 a{text-decoration:none;color:#607EC5}span.tagcloud5{font-size:3.0em;padding:0em;color:#607EC5;z-index:5;position:relative}span.tagcloud5 a{text-decoration:none;color:#607EC5}span.tagcloud6{font-size:3.3em;padding:0em;color:#4C6DB9;z-index:4;position:relative}span.tagcloud6 a{text-decoration:none;color:#4C6DB9}span.tagcloud7{font-size:3.6em;padding:0em;color:#395CAE;z-index:3;position:relative}span.tagcloud7 a{text-decoration:none;color:#395CAE}span.tagcloud8{font-size:3.9em;padding:0em;color:#264CA2;z-index:2;position:relative}span.tagcloud8 a{text-decoration:none;color:#264CA2}span.tagcloud9{font-size:4.2em;padding:0em;color:#133B97;z-index:1;position:relative}span.tagcloud9 a{text-decoration:none;color:#133B97}span.tagcloud10{font-size:4.5em;padding:0em;color:#002A8B;z-index:0;position:relative}span.tagcloud10 a{text-decoration:none;color:#002A8B}span.freq{font-size:10pt !important;color:#bbb}#credit{text-align:center; font-size:0.7em; color:#333; margin-bottom:0.6em; font-family:'lucida grande',trebuchet,'trebuchet ms',verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;}#credit a:link{color:#777; text-decoration:none;}#credit a:visited{color:#777; text-decoration:none;}#credit a:hover{text-decoration:none; color:white; background-color:#05f;}#credit a:active{text-decoration:underline;}// --> </style><div id="htmltagcloud"> <span id="0" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">access</a></span> <span id="1" class="tagcloud2"><a href="#tagcloud">americorps</a></span> <span id="2" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">area</a></span> <span id="3" class="tagcloud5"><a href="#tagcloud">blog</a></span> <span id="4" class="tagcloud3"><a href="#tagcloud">boston</a></span> <span id="5" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">center</a></span> <span id="6" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">com</a></span> <span id="7" class="tagcloud9"><a href="#tagcloud">community</a></span> <span id="8" class="tagcloud2"><a href="#tagcloud">computer</a></span> <span id="9" class="tagcloud3"><a href="#tagcloud">conference</a></span> <span id="10" class="tagcloud6"><a href="#tagcloud">ctc</a></span> <span id="11" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">ctcvista</a></span> <span id="12" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">development</a></span> <span id="13" class="tagcloud4"><a href="#tagcloud">digital</a></span> <span id="14" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">doing</a></span> <span id="15" class="tagcloud2"><a href="#tagcloud">free</a></span> <span id="16" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">going</a></span> <span id="17" class="tagcloud5"><a href="#tagcloud">http</a></span> <span id="18" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">including</a></span> <span id="19" class="tagcloud2"><a href="#tagcloud">information</a></span> <span id="20" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">learn</a></span> <span id="21" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">list</a></span> <span id="22" class="tagcloud8"><a href="#tagcloud">media</a></span> <span id="23" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">meeting</a></span> <span id="24" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">members</a></span> <span id="25" class="tagcloud3"><a href="#tagcloud">network</a></span> <span id="26" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">online</a></span> <span id="27" class="tagcloud6"><a href="#tagcloud">org</a></span> <span id="28" class="tagcloud5"><a href="#tagcloud">organizations</a></span> <span id="29" class="tagcloud5"><a href="#tagcloud">people</a></span> <span id="30" class="tagcloud5"><a href="#tagcloud">program</a></span> <span id="31" class="tagcloud7"><a href="#tagcloud">project</a></span> <span id="32" class="tagcloud2"><a href="#tagcloud">resources</a></span> <span id="33" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">school</a></span> <span id="34" class="tagcloud4"><a href="#tagcloud">service</a></span> <span id="35" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">site</a></span> <span id="36" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">social</a></span> <span id="37" class="tagcloud5"><a href="#tagcloud">technology</a></span> <span id="38" class="tagcloud2"><a href="#tagcloud">think</a></span> <span id="39" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">tools</a></span> <span id="40" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">training</a></span> <span id="41" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">used</a></span> <span id="42" class="tagcloud0"><a href="#tagcloud">video</a></span> <span id="43" class="tagcloud10"><a href="#tagcloud">vista</a></span> <span id="44" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">web</a></span> <span id="45" class="tagcloud1"><a href="#tagcloud">website</a></span> <span id="46" class="tagcloud8"><a href="#tagcloud">work</a></span> <span id="47" class="tagcloud4"><a href="#tagcloud">www</a></span> <span id="48" class="tagcloud2"><a href="#tagcloud">year</a></span> <span id="49" class="tagcloud4"><a href="#tagcloud">youth</a></span> </div> <div id="credit">created at <a href="http://tagcrowd.com">TagCrowd.com</a></div> <p>&lt;!-- end tag cloud : generated by TagCrowd.com : please keep this line --></p> http://digitalartscorps.org/node/508#comments fun metadata pretty tagcloud tagging tags VISTA Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:46:36 +0000 Ben Sheldon 508 at http://digitalartscorps.org