Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Category: jQuery
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Our Signal takes Digg, Reddit, Delicious, and Hacker News and creates a full page cloud visualization using jQuery.
The size of the box reflects the popularity, and the color lets you know the acceleration of that popularity. If the color is warm, it is on the rise, and vice versa for cool colors.
I like seeing alternative visualizations, but I have to admit I am not a huge fan of tag cloud style views. You?
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Just to nitpick, this particular visualization is called a treemap. Here’s way more than anyone would want to know about them: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/index.shtml
Look like a particular favorite blog of mine needs to pick up a copy of Designing Interfaces by Jennifer Tidwell. *cough!*
Oh god, why? This is horrendous. More importantly, it’s useless. It’s nothing but noise.
And in my FF, the script takes so long it gives me an alert. Not good.
what’s wrong wit a little experimentation… I like it, and I hadn’t heard of a couple articles until I checked this out.
Don’t dare attempt to resize the page – you’ll be welcomed with a 5 second wait at least in FF2 (haven’t upgraded this machine yet.) The resize detection needs to be optimized.
Otherwise pretty neat.
It’s a neat idea, but I’ve just never found treemaps very understandable.
This tends to come out as a giant jumble.
There’s an old (and fairly better): http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm