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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 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 University of California San Diego http://jeremydouglass.com jeremydouglass@gmail.com
Tag clouds arecharacterized bydense clusters ('clouds')of text
Tag clouds aremade up ofweighted terms (tags) such as keywords
The size of each word is proportional to the number of times it's mentioned in current news stories.
“ ” «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.
Context Tree isa software frameworkfor creatingfractal poetry
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
fractal poetry • complex and self-similar • visual and spatial • words or letters are arranged as primitives
Context Tree renders the story into a word list with probabilities/ Markov chain
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