The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful?

By James Sinclair, Michael Cardew-Hall. Journal of information science, 2008

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Using Wordle as a Supplementary Research Tool (2010, background): “A number of programs are available for generating these word clouds: TagCrowd (Steinbock, 2008; Sinclair & Cardew-Hall, 2008), MakeCloud (MakeCloud, 2008), ToCloud (ToCloud, 2007) and Wordle (Feinberg, 2009).”
Word Cloud Explorer: Text Analytics Based on Word Clouds (2014, background): “Sinclair and Cardew-Hall [26] compared word clouds with a user interface simply consisting of a search box.”
Dynamic Wordclouds and Vennclouds for Exploratory Data Analysis (2014, background): “Users performing an open-ended search task preferred us-ing a wordcloud to a search box (Sinclair and Cardew-Hall, 2008), possibly because the word-cloud prevented them from having to hypothesize what might be in the collection before searching for it.”
Search Result Clustering in Collaborative Sound Collections (2020, background): “The user can quickly find particular sub-topics present in the search results [38].”
Interpretation and trust: designing model-driven visualizations for text analysis (2012, background): “Studies found sum-mary information provided by a word cloud can help form meaningful impressions [14] and answer broad queries [43].”