{"id":2,"date":"2008-10-06T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-15T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T18:40:38","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is TagCrowd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or\u00c2\u00a0tag cloud.<\/p>\n<p>It was created in July 2006 by <a href=\"http:\/\/steinbock.org\">Daniel Steinbock<\/a>, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>A word cloud is a beautiful, informative image that\u00c2\u00a0communicates much in a single glance. TagCrowd specializes in making word clouds easy to read, analyze and compare, for a variety of useful purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>as topic summaries for <a href=\"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/state-of-the-union-2002-vs-2011\/\">speeches and written works<\/a><\/li>\n<li>as blog tool or website analysis for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/2641221\/seo_tips_using_tagcrowd_as_an_seo_tool.html\">search engine optimization<\/a> (SEO)<\/li>\n<li>for <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1475-4762.2010.00952.x\/full\">visual analysis of qualitative data<\/a><\/li>\n<li>as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideagrove.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/what-do-top-pr-firms-web-sites-say-about-them.html\">brand clouds<\/a> that let companies see how they are perceived by the world<\/li>\n<li>for <a href=\"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/18\/aol-search-data\/\">data mining<\/a> a text corpus<\/li>\n<li>for helping <a href=\"http:\/\/creativitymachine.net\/2007\/01\/25\/tagcloud-of-my-phd\/\">writers and students reflect<\/a> on their work<\/li>\n<li>as <a href=\"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/name-tagclouds-a-success\/\">name tags for conferences<\/a>, cocktail parties or wherever new collaborations start<\/li>\n<li>as <a href=\"http:\/\/nancywozniak.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/10\/compress-yourself-tag-cloud-your-resume\/\">resumes<\/a> in a single glance<\/li>\n<li>as <a href=\"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/04\/beautiful-information\/\">visual poetry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and continues to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TagCrowd is a web application for visualizing word frequencies in any text by creating what is popularly known as a word cloud, text cloud or\u00c2\u00a0tag cloud. It was created in July 2006 by Daniel Steinbock, a doctoral student in Design and Education at Stanford University. A word cloud is a beautiful, informative image that\u00c2\u00a0communicates much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is TagCrowd?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tagcrowd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}