Data Format

Simply link to text on a website for which you want to create a word cloud.  

Customization Options

Go to Common Customization Options to see the rest of the options

Title of word cloud 

sets the title that appears below the word cloud

  • Type in a title
  • Note that this title can be different from the title of the visualization defined at the top of the page
Title font color
  • Either type in a hexadecimal color value
  • Or click the colored square to show the ColorPicker tool
Title font size
  • Type in a number
Lowest visible frequency 

screens out words that appear less frequently

  • Type in a number
  • If you do not want to see words that appear only once, for example, set the "lowest visible frequency" to 2
Highest visible frequency

screens out words that appear more frequently

  • If you do not want to see words that appear more than four times, for example, set the "highest visible frequency" to 3
Scale

determines the layout of your word cloud

  • "Linear Scale": have words that happen more frequently be larger than words that happen less frequently
  • "Logarithmic Scale": emphasize the differences between close frequencies, such as between words that appear twice and words that appear three times
  • "Binary Scale": have words show up the same way regardless of frequency
Cloud colors

controls the colors used in the cloud

  • By default, the Word Cloud is given randomly assigned colors
  • Click the colored square to show the ColorPicker tool
  • Choose one or more colors by clicking the tabs at the top of the wheel
  • Note that each color selected becomes part of a gradient that is distributed across the word frequencies
Word tilt range

controls the maximum angle that the words in the cloud can be tilted

  • Type in a number

  • A higher number tilts words more, a lower number tilts them less, and entering zero does not tilt them

Show a list of words?

hides particular words in the word cloud

  • Click True in the drop-down menu
  • Find a list of words in the top left corner of the word cloud
  • Click x to hide words
    • Undo by clicking the arrow to show words

 

 

 

 

 

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