Web 2.0 - Visual Reporting with Text Clouds
June 29, 2008
A text cloud can be used to effectively display sales volumes, product profitability or just to analyse a web page. Text clouds offer visually effective reports which can deliver complex information in a simple easy to absorb manner.
Logi Info delivers a new text cloud element for web 2.0-style visualization of data. The relative font sizes and colors of words or phrases within the text cloud is an indication of their weighting, frequency or other numeric value.
The words or phrases may also be links, allowing further drill down into detail data.
From Wikipedia
“A tag cloud or word cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags, or simply the word content of a site, used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. The tags are usually hyperlinks that lead to a collection of items that are associated with a tag.”
