Word Clouds aggregate text data, and display the words with higher frequency of occurrence. We use them to emphasize prominent phrases or words in textual data.
World clouds include many manual setting adjustments.
We are working with the dataset Shakespeare's Sonnets, created from the datafile shakespeare_sonnets.csv.
In the visuals menu, find and click Word Cloud (row 3, column 1).
Note that the shelves of the visual changed. They are now X, Y, Dimensions, Measures, and Filters. The mandatory shelves are Dimensions and Measures.
Populate the shelves from the available fields:
Text
to the Dimensions
shelf.Record Count
to the Measures
shelf.Click Refresh Visual.
Change the title to Shakespeare Sonnets - Word Cloud
.
Click (pencil icon) next to the title of the visualization to edit it, and enter the new name.
[Optional] Click (pencil icon) below the title of the visualization to add a brief description of the visual.
At the top left corner of the Visual Designer, click Save.
At the top left corner of the Visual Designer, click Close.
The visual should look something like this:
To adjust the Word Cloud display, check all the available settings for this visual.
Often, it is interesting to compare different texts by examining their different word clouds. See Trellised Word Clouds