Sunday, August 13, 2006
Most popular tags on flickr
Whilst thinking about Searching Picasa Web Albums I did a bit of investigation into the most popular tags on flickr.
flickr provide a tag cloud, but that is just a visualization of the data, and I couldn't see that they provide the data in a direct form anywhere on the site. However, with the aid of the flickr API I was able to take all the words in the tag cloud, and feed them to the API, to get a count of how many matching tags there were for each word. In addition, I also fed those same words to the "free text" search API call, which looks for the word in more than just the tag field - considereing comments and descriptions for example.
The table below shows 3 columns - the tag I searched for, the number of tags of that word found, and the number of photos found using a free text search. The table is ordered by popularity of tags.
flickr provide a tag cloud, but that is just a visualization of the data, and I couldn't see that they provide the data in a direct form anywhere on the site. However, with the aid of the flickr API I was able to take all the words in the tag cloud, and feed them to the API, to get a count of how many matching tags there were for each word. In addition, I also fed those same words to the "free text" search API call, which looks for the word in more than just the tag field - considereing comments and descriptions for example.
The table below shows 3 columns - the tag I searched for, the number of tags of that word found, and the number of photos found using a free text search. The table is ordered by popularity of tags.
| wedding | 1697455 | 2269471 |
| party | 1475681 | 2350563 |
| family | 1160057 | 1557739 |
| travel | 1113576 | 1275557 |
| friends | 1093997 | 1649955 |
| japan | 1074281 | 1167494 |
| vacation | 1020423 | 1162147 |
| london | 927172 | 1100791 |
| beach | 864728 | 1493985 |
| california | 837012 | 960129 |
| birthday | 829670 | 1371859 |
| trip | 817324 | 1786838 |
| nyc | 774884 | 879161 |
| summer | 732387 | 1122946 |
| nature | 728059 | 816467 |
| italy | 686976 | 776812 |
| france | 669406 | 759215 |
| me | 664111 | 2886782 |
| paris | 662024 | 786996 |
| art | 643563 | 1104574 |
| flowers | 627830 | 1439335 |
| sanfrancisco | 618604 | 620523 |
| europe | 610237 | 708284 |
| china | 604334 | 707039 |
| flower | 596891 | 1439327 |
| newyork | 572049 | 575557 |
| water | 565749 | 973599 |
| people | 552582 | 975146 |
| music | 551493 | 740282 |
| cameraphone | 544369 | 634883 |
| australia | 543923 | 611789 |
| christmas | 537883 | 834827 |
| usa | 531563 | 619628 |
| sky | 527376 | 756538 |
| germany | 526931 | 595724 |
| new | 526549 | 2723772 |
| canada | 512067 | 612492 |
| night | 510466 | 1210035 |
| cat | 504840 | 852699 |
| holiday | 501819 | 703551 |
| park | 498178 | 1820673 |
| bw | 495568 | 514618 |
| dog | 486692 | 859611 |
| food | 478691 | 684164 |
| snow | 478068 | 643189 |
| baby | 463882 | 837637 |
| sunset | 462862 | 752411 |
| city | 446866 | 1294211 |
| chicago | 445639 | 529140 |
| spain | 441158 | 491290 |
| taiwan | 437633 | 461265 |
| july | 435057 | 1033708 |
| blue | 431367 | 862404 |
| tokyo | 427181 | 505507 |
| england | 425920 | 510575 |
| mexico | 406752 | 535804 |
| winter | 403827 | 579849 |
| portrait | 396759 | 644632 |
| green | 394571 | 671410 |
| red | 393719 | 848593 |
| fun | 392680 | 688356 |
| india | 386409 | 446473 |
| architecture | 383526 | 423993 |
| garden | 382303 | 981077 |
| macro | 380663 | 428872 |
| spring | 373441 | 759260 |
| thailand | 368331 | 411644 |
| uk | 362555 | 468979 |
| seattle | 357614 | 421000 |
| festival | 357137 | 658357 |
| concert | 350224 | 471579 |
| canon | 349327 | 580369 |
| house | 347404 | 1236984 |
| berlin | 343694 | 403534 |
| hawaii | 340744 | 384573 |
| street | 339503 | 1036943 |
| lake | 324783 | 937873 |
| zoo | 324442 | 460997 |
| florida | 322534 | 387322 |
| june | 321243 | 729667 |
| may | 316693 | 903231 |
| white | 313703 | 867135 |
| vancouver | 312657 | 383569 |
| kids | 312551 | 635702 |
| tree | 312542 | 1019630 |
| clouds | 307407 | 479446 |
| toronto | 304648 | 359194 |
| barcelona | 293035 | 341533 |
| geotagged | 292631 | 294655 |
| home | 291227 | 778635 |
| sea | 288469 | 546365 |
| day | 287287 | 2136618 |
| texas | 284851 | 360478 |
| scotland | 284615 | 309559 |
| car | 281730 | 788266 |
| light | 281436 | 909673 |
| halloween | 280515 | 362042 |
| camping | 279238 | 654077 |
| church | 273001 | 535265 |
| animals | 270757 | 542946 |
| trees | 270098 | 1019628 |
| washington | 266921 | 470046 |
| river | 266128 | 668903 |
| nikon | 265291 | 393117 |
| april | 262835 | 581807 |
| boston | 261935 | 330032 |
| girl | 258663 | 857847 |
| ireland | 258647 | 305876 |
| graffiti | 257081 | 283560 |
| amsterdam | 256794 | 307304 |
| rock | 256142 | 795001 |
| landscape | 254799 | 343825 |
| blackandwhite | 252987 | 253364 |
| cats | 252971 | 852700 |
| newyorkcity | 250213 | 250430 |
| san | 247739 | 1271943 |
| rome | 246027 | 286082 |
| roadtrip | 245326 | 255484 |
| urban | 244511 | 321849 |
| honeymoon | 241904 | 271611 |
| ocean | 240941 | 359337 |
| dc | 235053 | 363788 |
| newzealand | 232776 | 233573 |
| march | 231491 | 532229 |
| black | 231180 | 708269 |
| museum | 230643 | 562979 |
| york | 230193 | 868773 |
| hiking | 226067 | 398781 |
| island | 224110 | 844505 |
| mountains | 223030 | 759360 |
| yellow | 221515 | 347290 |
| sydney | 221447 | 278644 |
| sun | 218685 | 503464 |
| hongkong | 216193 | 222298 |
| show | 216155 | 850535 |
| graduation | 214681 | 306454 |
| color | 213967 | 579521 |
| film | 210509 | 351853 |
| mountain | 210046 | 759360 |
| animal | 208416 | 542946 |
| losangeles | 207932 | 208309 |
| school | 205891 | 550486 |
| moblog | 205613 | 210954 |
| photo | 205047 | 2308835 |
| dogs | 203610 | 859613 |
# posted by zmarties @ 8/13/2006 01:32:00 pm 
