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The Most Popular Minerals in the Geoblogosphere

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 in General, Minerals and Resources by Dave Schumaker | 6 comments

Alright, so a lot of people have responded to Chuck’s post about 50 essential minerals. I’ve created two tag clouds (similar to the tag clouds that Brian Romans tag clouds that Brian Romans wrote about back in May) that show the most popular minerals people have posted about so far.

1.) Most Popular Minerals Observed in the Field

2.) Most Popular Minerals Observed in a Lab / Museum

I think this data makes much more sense than my previous try, which just combined ALL the data in a single tag cloud.

UPDATE: I think I will redo entire this word cloud. Since most people are using Chuck’s original list and also adding some of their own minerals, I might try to break this down into two lists. Otherwise the relative sizes of many of the minerals won’t change since it will be included on everyone’s list. This is probably what I will end up creating…
1.) The Most Popular Minerals Observed in the Field
2.) The Most Popular Minerals Observed in a Museum / Lab

UPDATE 2: Done!

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Tag Cloud for Every Geology News Post

Monday, May 5, 2008 in General by Dave Schumaker | 6 comments

The geoblogosphere is abuzz this weekend thanks to a post from Brian Romans, showing the most popular words used in a paper he has published. Since then, almost every other website of note in the geoblogosphere has posted similar entries on papers they’ve written or books they have or will soon publish.

I decided to go a slightly different route. I exported the database of the Geology News website, stripped out all the html and decided to run a query through the TagCrowd website on every single post we’ve done here at Geology News. All 319 of them.

The results are interesting. You can definitely see what topics are the most popular here, as well as the source of most of our news items. (If you’re truly interested in my own thesis, you can scroll down and read what words are most popular there as well).