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Re: st: Tag clouds in Stata?
On 29 Beal 2009, at 08:40, Gawrich Stefan wrote:
Example 1 : Tag cloud of variable names (in alphabetical order or in
order
of the dataset): Fontsize represents e.g. the proportion of missing
values.
Example 2 : Tag clouds of values/value labels of a categorical var
(with
many strata like postcodes in a region). Fontsize represents an
aggregated
score in each stratum.
Both of these cases can be better handled by using simple barcharts
with the bars ordered from highest to lowest. The excellent -mrtab-
and -mrgraph-, written by Ben Jann, are very versatile in this respect.
Tag clouds are usually sorted alphabetically, making the relative size
of each tag hard to assess, since tags you may want to compare are in
different places. If you sorted them by magnitude, of course, the fun
aspect of tag clouds would be lost.
Ronan Conroy
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