From the TechLab: Glocal Pool Tagspace Visualizations

Writing by Jer on Thursday, 9 of October , 2008 at 12:46 pm

We spent an afternoon earlier this week building up our database so that we can more easily explore the tagspace and understand how people are describing their images. Once that was done, we were able to create some visualizations in Processing which would help us look at this huge amount of data in more interesting ways:

Here you can see that the most popular tag in our pool is ‘glocalproject’. The size of the tags then descend with their popularity. If you look at the largest size of the first image (4000px x 2000px!) you can read a lot of the tags.

For the record, the longest tag in our pool is ‘hesquitecontainedandlikestoprancearoundwithmeatcollege’, which, not surprisingly, only appears once.

Stay tuned for more!

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Comment by Claude Fiset

Made Saturday, 18 of October , 2008 at 6:34 pm

I just visited your display and I was very impressed with the technology you developped.
The intraction with the giant screen was fun also.
My compliments.

Comment by michelle

Made Thursday, 23 of October , 2008 at 11:18 pm

so it’s like a tag or keyword cloud? that’s sooooo kool!

Comment by Jer

Made Monday, 27 of October , 2008 at 2:38 pm

Hi Michelle – it is like a tag cloud, just a little bit more ordered than usual! Eventually, we’d like to start exploring relationships between tags, but to start we had to get a list of all of the tags that are currently used in our pool.