If you have the eye of a good copy editor, you might have noticed some volatility in the ole Tag Cloud on the right. I made some changes at the request of people on the SubText developers list and reworked some stuff—most of which is completely invisible. The biggest visible change is that I decided that assuming an even dispersion around the mean might work in natural statistics, blog post tags tend to be more of a declining curve however.
What that means is that most algorithms for displaying tag clouds use a formula that allocates about half their categories to styles that are never visible. Most tag clouds I saw had slots for up to seven different visual styles that only really displayed three or four.
Well, that's just a waste of a good idea, I say! So I mucked with the weighting formula so that I'd see more visual variation in my clouds. We'll have to see if my theory holds after scrutiny and on blogs with larger traffic.
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