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How Do You Scale a Tag Cloud? | Dark Hacker News
How Do You Scale a Tag Cloud?
(blog.outer-court.com)
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python_kiss
19 years ago
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dfranke
19 years ago
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Like this:
#tagcloud { height: 0%; width: 0%; }
That's about the proper scale.
staunch
19 years ago
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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
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Here's a technique using power law distributions:
http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds