TIMELINESTag clouds and the case for vernacular visualization

2008/07/01 by Fernanda B. Viégas, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg · 3 citations
Computer Science · #Data Visualization and Analytics #Video Analysis and Summarization

paper · doi:10.1145/1374489.1374501

openalex publication_date 2008/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/26

Abstract

Most HCI history articles trace digital developments back to the 1980s, 1960s, or earlier. Information visualization is moving so rapidly that it's great to have a look back and glance forward on tag clouds, just over a decade old in digital form, from leading visualization researchers Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. ---Jonathan Grudin

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