Watch our video here where our cofounder, Ray Poynter, made a word cloud based on the popular book ‘A Christmas Carol’ – just by using the text file version of the book. Where does the data come from to make a word cloud in the first place?Ī data source can be anything you can copy and paste text from: a website, a text document, a spreadsheet, etc. The size and (sometimes) the positioning of the words represent the frequency of how often those words appeared in a data file.įor example, the most frequently used word or term is usually larger than the other text, and usually in the middle of the word cloud, like in this example below. A word cloud is a type of data visualisation, created from text data, where multiple words, phrases, or themes are arranged in different sizes and positions within a ‘cloud’ shape.
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