Word Cloud: Overview
The Word Cloud is a visualisation which displays the descriptions of categories from a selector or banded variable, as a "cloud" of words. Those words with the highest counts (or other cube statistic value) for the underlying selection are given the most prominence.
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Create a Selection of records.
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From the Visualisation section of the Toolbox drag and drop the
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Word Cloud tool on your open selection. -
Now select the variable you want to visualize for the records in your selection. Drag this variable onto the drop zone entitled Drop your variable here. Click the
Build button.
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This example displays graphically the different newspapers read by the people in the underlying selection. Each newspaper category is represented proportionally to its readership... with larger text for higher volumes and smaller text for lower volumes. The descriptions are displayed randomly on the screen in a cloud effect.