Word Cloud

Application Scenario

As a chart displaying the frequency of data, the word cloud visually highlights the high-frequency keywords and forms a keyword cloud by filtering out a large amount of text information. Word clouds allow you to grasp the key points with just a glance at the text.

You can use word clouds to create user profiles, cluster users, analyze topic popularity, achieve precise marketing, and so on. 

Basic Requirement

Basic requirements for word cloud charts are as follows. 

Chart Feature

Advantage: Word clouds are suitable for displaying multiple text data with large differences in the data volume, showing high-frequency content.

Disadvantage: Word clouds are not suitable for displaying data with few differences.

Data Preparation

1. Log in to the system as the admin, click My Analysis, select a folder, and click New Subject, as shown in the following figure.

2. Click Local Excel and click Upload Data, as shown in the following figure.

You can download the example data.Search frequency.xlsx

3. After the data is uploaded, click OK.

Component Creation

1. Click Component in the lower left corner.

2. Drag the Word field into the Dimension bar and the Search Frequency field into the Indicator bar, and click the Word Cloud icon in Chart Type.

In this way, the Search Frequency field is added to the Size bar, and the Word field is added to the Text bar.

Chart Beautifying

Drag the Search Frequency field into the Color bar, click the icon , set Gradient Type to Area Gradient, and select Aurora for Gradient Solution.

Size Setting

Click the icon of the Size bar to adjust the font size of the word cloud text.

Legend Setting

Click Legend in Component Style and deselect Size in Display All Legends.

Effect Display

On PC

On Mobile Terminals

The following figure shows the preview effect on the DataAnalyst app and in HTML5.