tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916114.post446731292482465652..comments2023-10-10T22:40:19.027-05:00Comments on Across the Blood-Brain Barrier: Using Tag Clouds to Visualize Revisionmetaspencerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12097953494469411691noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916114.post-56195431465466028052009-05-17T21:29:00.000-05:002009-05-17T21:29:00.000-05:00Very cool, Derek. Since posting this, I've been th...Very cool, Derek. Since posting this, I've been thinking a bit about what tag clouds speak to, in terms of composition and language, and what they miss.<br /><br />Of course, what they reveal is lexical prevalence ... or content-word prevalence. Because of this, how much do they leave out?<br /><br />Clearly aspects of form, structure, organization are unclouded. Grammatical and non-grammatical writing tag identically, and such important features such as code switching are invisible to the clouder. <br /><br />But I still love what the clouds reveal. In the cloud of my book, for instance, "http" shows up indicating a move to many more online sources. "York" appears in both clouds, as they include my bibliographies into the data pools. New York, we know from the clouds, is still such a hub of publishing.metaspencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12097953494469411691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916114.post-8725234404473228252009-05-17T16:53:00.000-05:002009-05-17T16:53:00.000-05:00total genius. i hope you're planning to include th...total genius. i hope you're planning to include this as part of your dossier.dhawheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04587885481577365329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916114.post-24830727296437429922009-05-17T16:02:00.000-05:002009-05-17T16:02:00.000-05:00Glad to see this. I've gained a lot of insight...Glad to see this. I've gained a lot of insight (learned much, that is) from similar clouding practices to the ones you've described here, and I've tried in my dissertation to articulate some of the ways tag clouds might make a formative contribution to "network sense." During the most recent hiring cycle, one of my job talks was titled "Cloud Composing," (on cloud-making practices for research and teaching, basically) and in a post-talk Q&A the conversation toward how nifty it would be to use the tag cloud as an abstract writing prompt of sorts. Something along the lines of, "Write the document that would render into this cloud." Something like this hints at the usefulness of clouds for invention, too.Derekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16693037315177537166noreply@blogger.com