Comments on: I love tag clouds http://www.ia-blog.com/2007/01/04/i-love-tag-clouds/ A blog by Robert Berkman, Editor, The Information Advisor Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:30:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ted http://www.ia-blog.com/2007/01/04/i-love-tag-clouds/#comment-40 Ted Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:38:00 +0000 http://iablog.onlineinc.com/?p=85#comment-40 You might also be interested in the work we are doing at The Personal Bee to create phrase clouds from aggregated articles. We are also experimenting with topic analysis.<br/><br/>Here is an example for the Web 2.0 content area:<br/><br/>http://www.personalbee.com/227/buzziest<br/><br/>And if you look at the top left corner, the five phrases in the box labeled "Top Buzz" are the top 5 topics, based on the phrases in the cloud.<br/><br/>Essentially what we are doing is extracting phrases from all of the aggregated articles and analyzing these phrases against historical records for the use of these phrases within each of the sources. This allows us to identify not just frequently mentioned phrases but time relevant emergent phrases... You might also be interested in the work we are doing at The Personal Bee to create phrase clouds from aggregated articles. We are also experimenting with topic analysis.

Here is an example for the Web 2.0 content area:

http://www.personalbee.com/227/buzziest

And if you look at the top left corner, the five phrases in the box labeled “Top Buzz” are the top 5 topics, based on the phrases in the cloud.

Essentially what we are doing is extracting phrases from all of the aggregated articles and analyzing these phrases against historical records for the use of these phrases within each of the sources. This allows us to identify not just frequently mentioned phrases but time relevant emergent phrases…

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