Creating a word cloud
A word cloud, also called a tag cloud, is typically a collection of keywords or text data visualized using size and color. Often, the goal of a word cloud is to represent the relative importance or prevalence of the keywords. Word clouds are not meant to allow the audience to clearly and accurately compare the underlying values of each keyword.
In this recipe, we will create a viz that shows the most popular baby names from 1910-2012. Note that viz is a slang word for visualization.
Getting ready
To follow this recipe, open
B05527_01 – STARTER.twbx. Use the worksheet called Word Cloud, and connect to the TopBabyNamesByState ...
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