What is TagCrowd?
TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any user-supplied text by creating what is popularly known as a tag cloud or text cloud.
Today, text clouds are primarily used for navigation and visualization on Web 2.0 sites that employ user-generated metadata (tags) as a categorization scheme. (Flickr is a good example.)
TagCrowd is doing something different.
When we look at a text cloud, we see not only an informative, beautiful image that communicates much in a single glance, we see a whole new perspective on text.
TagCrowd is taking tag clouds far beyond their original function:
**as topic summaries for speeches and written works
**for visual analysis of survey data
**as brand clouds that let companies see how they are perceived by the world
**for data mining a text corpus
**for helping writers and students reflect on their work
**as name tags for conferences, cocktail parties or wherever new collaborations start
**as resumes in a single glance
**as visual poetry
