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Chapter 6. Making Tag Clouds in PHP > Magnifying the Long Tail (Inverse Power M...

6.5. Magnifying the Long Tail (Inverse Power Mapping in PHP)

The uniformity of the font sizes I noted earlier is still a problem. The reason forthis is that the tag counts are arranged in a power curve (Figure 23). Power curvesare a very common phenomenon found in popularity or frequency data collectedfrom human activity.

Figure 23. A power curve



  

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