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JavaFX Radial Tag Visualizer

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Building off the momentum of my previous Tag Visualizer, I decided to write another one, this time using a radial model.

The data is the same as before: tags from my tag cloud with their relative weights and correlations (how frequently they occur in the same post — the wider the line of the arc, the stronger two tags are correlated).

This visualizer scales much better than the previous one. I can easily fit my entire tag cloud, which, granted, isn’t all that big. So how well does it scale? Check out this screen shot:

This massive ball of twine represents the top 180 tags from Last.fm and a fraction of their correlations (here “correlation” means how frequently two tags are applied to the same band). The data is courtesy of Paul Lamere during his Open Research initiative.

So while it does scale better than the previous attempt, it certainly has a definite upper limit.

Similar to the previous visualizer, this idea was also taken from the Graphic Design book, “Data Flow”.

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6 Responses to “JavaFX Radial Tag Visualizer”

  1. doliver wrote:
    January 27th, 2009 at 3:10 pm |

    Sten – great improvement on the already very cool idea.

  2. doliver wrote:
    January 27th, 2009 at 3:11 pm |

    no webstart version of this one?

  3. sanderson wrote:
    January 28th, 2009 at 9:33 am |

    Thanks for the comments. I didn’t include a webstart link on this one because all it does is display the static image that you see here. There are no animations like the previous one.

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    January 28th, 2009 at 6:23 pm |

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