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How Do You Scale a Tag Cloud? | Better HN
How Do You Scale a Tag Cloud?
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python_kiss
18y ago
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dfranke
18y ago
Like this:
#tagcloud { height: 0%; width: 0%; }
That's about the proper scale.
staunch
18y ago
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
18y ago
Here's a technique using power law distributions:
http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds
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