Visualisation of Search Results of a Tag based Search
This is the visualisation of the Search Results generated for the tag 'Folksonomy'. Here each dot represents one result ; and the results are sorted by the no. of tags on the result. The violet tags are the ones already existing in the user's bookmarks list. Only the 'unique tags' (if any) for every result are shown.
Also, only the first say, 40 results are shown , as most users would be interested in these only. The remaining results can be viewed by clicking at the arrows at the end of the Spiral. Further, the name of the url represented by tht dot , along with all its tags can be seen on rolling over that dot.
I feel the beauty of this visualisation is tht it gives a Systems level view of all the Search results, in relation to where they stand in comparision to the other results.
Visualisations for a Tag Match
During my Research on tagging based systems I came up with an idea
of making use of Tags as the profile indicator of a user. This tag
matching can be used to find people with similar interests as yours and
you can then subscribe to their bookmarks list (for ex. In delicious) or
just for social networking.
The idea is that you match your tags with all the users of the system , and the results are displayed as the percentage of tags
matched with that user (here each dot represents a user). The innermost ring is for users with >90% tag match ; the next ring is for
users between 80 to 90% match and so on. Also the system should be intelligent enough to analyze the distribution of the tags matched. The
angle at which these dots lie indicates that out of the tags matched, the dominant tags in the other user’s library are those lying on the outermost
periphery. What this means is that the users lying in the first quadrant (and the innermost ring) are the most relevant ones for you, since their
dominant tags are also ur dominant tags , and as you move clockwise ( even within the same ring) the matching with users decreases, as their dominant
tags are ur not so dominant ones.
