Talk:Data cloud

The author of this article does not link to any references where the term "data cloud" is used. I am not sure it is an accepted terminology. Sites like swivel.com or IBM many eyes use the term "tag cloud" to express the same idea.

It's a fairly new (March 2007 is the first one I know of) data visualization. Similar concept to a tag cloud, but using data that's not related to tags. In discussions on ManyEyes, users who use the tag cloud visualization for data that's unrelated to word count mentioned the need for some modifications to the phrase and layout. Visualizations that use color to add an additional data dimension are also not tag related, so I think the term "data cloud" is accepted but rare due to its recent development. I'll try to find some more references to it to improve the stub.WarrenA 15:02, 27 August 2007 (UTC)