Dynamic word clouds

Information

• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Visual Computing: Illustrative Visualization
• Date: May 2017
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-5107-2
• Location: Mikulov
• Lecturer: Martin Seyfert
• Event: SCCG 2017
• Editor: ACM
• DOI: 10.1145/3154353.3154358
• Booktitle: Proceedings of SCCG 2017
• Conference date: 15. May 2017 – 17. May 2017
• Keywords: tag cloud, animated, dynamic, time-varying, word cloud

Abstract

Using word clouds to visualize dynamic time-varying data is a field still under-explored. The goal of our approach is to provide a novel way of generating smoothly animated word clouds to show changes in word frequency via font size. Unlike existing methods, a compact layout, inspired by the popular word cloud generation tool Wordle, is preserved during animation and implemented using web technologies.Word size changes in time are also illustrated via color and word rotation.

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• DOI: 10.1145/3154353.3154358

BibTeX

@inproceedings{seyfert-2017,
  title =      "Dynamic word clouds",
  author =     "Ivan Viola and Martin Seyfert",
  year =       "2017",
  abstract =   "Using word clouds to visualize dynamic time-varying data is
               a field still under-explored. The goal of our approach is to
               provide a novel way of generating smoothly animated word
               clouds to show changes in word frequency via font size.
               Unlike existing methods, a compact layout, inspired by the
               popular word cloud generation tool Wordle, is preserved
               during animation and implemented using web technologies.Word
               size changes in time are also illustrated via color and word
               rotation. ",
  month =      may,
  isbn =       "978-1-4503-5107-2",
  location =   "Mikulov",
  event =      "SCCG 2017",
  editor =     "ACM",
  doi =        "10.1145/3154353.3154358",
  booktitle =  "Proceedings of SCCG 2017",
  keywords =   " tag cloud, animated, dynamic, time-varying, word cloud ",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2017/seyfert-2017/",
}