TagCrowd
TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud. It was created by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University. Today, text clouds are primarily used for navigation and visualization on Web 2.0 sites that employ user-generated metadata (tags) as a categorization scheme. (Flickr is a good example.) TagCrowd is doing something different. When we look at a text cloud, we see not only an informative, beautiful image that communicates much in a single glance, we see a whole new perspective on text. TagCrowd is taking tag clouds far beyond their original function: * as topic summaries for speeches and written works * as blog tool or website analysis for search engine optimization (SEO) * for visual analysis of survey data * as brand clouds that let companies see how they are perceived by the world * for data mining a text corpus