page_title: Tag cloud
section_title: Types
hierarchical_section_title: Tag cloud / Types
caption_attribution_description: English: World population tag cloud created in R (programming language) with package wordcloud. Data is from 2010 and/or 2011, taken from list of countries by population. Note that the proportional sizes of China and India were divided in half.
context_page_description: A tag cloud is a novelty visual representation of text data, typically used to depict keyword metadata on websites, or to visualize free form text. Tags are usually single words, and the importance of each tag is shown with font size or color. This format is useful for quickly perceiving the most prominent terms to determine its relative prominence. Bigger term means greater weight. When used as website navigation aids, the terms are hyperlinked to items associated with the tag.
context_section_description: There are three main types of tag cloud applications in social software, distinguished by their meaning rather than appearance. In the first type, there is a tag for the frequency of each item, whereas in the second type, there are global tag clouds where the frequencies are aggregated over all items and users. In the third type, the cloud contains categories, with size indicating number of subcategories.
caption: A data cloud showing the population of each of the world's countries. Created in R with the wordcloud package. Data from Country population. Note that the proportional sizes of China and India were divided in half.
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