An Evaluation of Semantically Grouped Word Cloud Designs

Word clouds continue to be a popular tool for summarizing textual information, despite their well-documented deficiencies for analytic tasks. Much of their popularity rests on their playful visual appeal. In this paper, we present the results of a series of controlled experiments that show that layo...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 26(2020), 9 vom: 14. Sept., Seite 2748-2761
1. Verfasser: Hearst, Marti A (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pedersen, Emily, Patil, Lekha, Lee, Elsie, Laskowski, Paul, Franconeri, Steven
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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