Introduction

Live demo:

This visualization show a rotating ball of tags, each linking to some url (on a user click). You're able to control speed, color, and the font size for each tag individually. The widget itself uses flash, and it is an open-source. See http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/ and http://www.roytanck.com/2008/05/19/how-to-repurpose-my-tag-cloud-flash-movie/

Details

Setup

• Include the js files http://word-cumulus-goog-vis.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/swfobject.js and http://word-cumulus-goog-vis.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wordcumulus.js in your html header
• Create a div container for the visualization

Inputs

The DataTable format accepted by the visualization, assumes the first column (string) has the user-text to show, and the second column (string) has the target urls. An optional third column (number) can contain font sizes.
Options properties that may be passed to draw: * text_color (e.g., '#ff0000') * hover_text_color * height (in px, default = 300) * width (in px, default = 400) * speed (default = 100, higher means faster rotation)

Code Sample

``` google.load("visualization", "1");

  // Set callback to run when API is loaded
  google.setOnLoadCallback(drawVisualization);

  // Called when the Visualization API is loaded.
  function drawVisualization() {

    // Create and populate a data table.
    var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
    data.addColumn('string', 'Tag');
    data.addColumn('string', 'URL');
    data.addRows(7);
    data.setCell(0, 0, 'Brazil');
    data.setCell(0, 1, 'http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brazil+fifa+world+cup');
    data.setCell(1, 0, 'Italy');
    data.setCell(1, 1, 'http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=italy+fifa+world+cup');
    data.setCell(2, 0, 'Germany');
    data.setCell(2, 1, 'http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=germany+fifa+world+cup');
    data.setCell(3, 0, 'Argentina');
    data.setCell(3, 1, 'http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=argentina+fifa+world+cup');
    data.setCell(4, 0, 'Uruguay');
    data.setCell(4, 1, 'http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uruguay+fifa+world+cup');
    data.setCell(5, 0, 'France');
    data.setCell(5, 1, 'http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=france+fifa+world+cup');
    data.setCell(6, 0, 'England');
    data.setCell(6, 1, 'http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=england+fifa+world+cup');
    // Instantiate our table object.
    var vis = new gviz_word_cumulus.WordCumulus(document.getElementById('mydiv'));

    // Draw our table with the data we created locally.
    vis.draw(data, {text_color: '#00ff00', speed: 50, width:600, height:600});
   }

FIFA World Cup: Country appearances in the final four

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