TIMELINESTag clouds and the case for vernacular visualization
Fernanda Viégas, MARTIN P. WATTENBERG · interactions · 2008
Most HCI history articles trace digital developments back to the 1980s, 1960s, or earlier. Information visualization is moving so rapidly that it's great to have a look back and glance forward on tag clouds, just over a decade old in digital form, from leading visualization researchers Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg. ---Jonathan Grudin