Awesome cloud view of our color names data

March 20th, 2008 by Brendan O'Connor

Martin Wattenberg at IBM Research took our color names data and made a cool new cloud view:

Cloud view of the color names from Martin Wattenberg

Instead of plotting each individual color name like in the original, he grouped together identical names, took an average position, and sized the word by frequency. That’s why the more common names like “red” and “green” are large. This really helps readability (and, I’ll admit, the black background works a bit better :))

Thanks to Martin for sending this on!

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5 Responses to “Awesome cloud view of our color names data”

  1. Linda Says:
    March 25th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    I love it! It’s beautiful. I want it for my screensaver–would there be a way to make the colours ripple as one runs the mouse over them?

  2. Jeff Says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

    Hi guys. Great work and thanks for sharing your data. I’ve constructed an interactive 3D viewer that you can check out at:
    http://www.neoformix.com/2008/ColorNamesExplorer.html

  3. brendano Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    Flying through colors! That sure is neat :)

  4. skyrose Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 am

    I like this one best

  5. Rosinah Says:
    May 15th, 2008 at 7:39 am

    Brilliant art of colors! I enjoy looking at it so much.

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