How Do You Scale a Tag Cloud?blog.outer-court.com 3 pointspython_kiss19 years ago3 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−dfranke19yLike this:#tagcloud { height: 0%; width: 0%; }That's about the proper scale.−staunch19yI think the simple approach of raising the threshold works pretty well. Spend time improving the metric used by the threshold -- make that part smart. Think about how the reddit home page works, where there's a similar problem: too many good links.−dpapathanasiou19yHere's a technique using power law distributions: http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds
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That's about the proper scale.
I think the simple approach of raising the threshold works pretty well. Spend time improving the metric used by the threshold -- make that part smart. Think about how the reddit home page works, where there's a similar problem: too many good links.
Here's a technique using power law distributions: http://thraxil.com/users/anders/posts/2005/12/13/scaling-tag-clouds