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Visualizing Tags over Time

, , , , , and . Proceedings of the 15th International WWW Conference, 1, page 7. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (23-25 May 2006)

Abstract

We consider the problem of visualizing the evolution of tags within the Flickr (flickr.com) online image sharing com- munity. Any user of the Flickr service may append a tag to any photo in the system. Over the past year, users have on average added over a million tags each week. Under- standing the evolution of these tags over time is therefore a challenging task. We present a new approach based on a characterization of the most interesting tags associated with a sliding interval of time. An animation provided via Flash in a web browser allows the user to observe and interact with the interesting tags as they evolve over time. New algorithms and data structures are required to sup- port the efficient generation of this visualization. We com- bine a novel solution to an interval covering problem with extensions to previous work on score aggregation in order to create an efficient backend system capable of producing visualizations at arbitrary scales on this large dataset in real time.

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