If last week’s discussion of the new visualization programming language ‘Impure’ caught your eye, then check out the live demonstration they’ve posted where they visualize the most popular tags of a few loved website (hint hint).
In Impure there is an API module called DeliciousTagFromUrl that downloads a list of tags that people have being associating to an url on their Delicious account, and how many times each tag have been used. So, we used this module three times in order to get Table for each blog. Then we assemble in a new table containing all the tags and all its weights.
Finally we read the three NumberList (the lists with weights) and we plug them to the ComparativeProportionsTriple visualizator, which is perfect for this purposes. This one is a home made interactive visualization method .
A still of the resulting image is above. I’m happy to see VizWorld scoring in 3D and News, but it’s neat to see how public perception (at least the delicious-tagging public) sees the three sites (VizWorld, FlowingData, and Infosthetics).
via Impure Blog.
