A word cloud chart visualizes a large amount of text data. It is a cloud-like and colored image that consists of words. For example, you can use a word cloud chart to generate user profiles and divide users into different groups to achieve precision marketing. This topic describes how to add data to a word cloud chart and configure the styles of the word cloud chart.
Prerequisites
A dashboard is created. For more information, see Create a dashboard.
Overview
Scenario
A word cloud chart is used to depict keywords, namely, tags, on websites or visualize free-form text. You can identify the importance of text by using a word cloud chart.
Benefits
Visualization: The shape of a word cloud chart can be set to a rectangle, triangle, heart, or ellipse.
Various interactive options: You can add remarks or endnotes to metrics in a word cloud chart. You can also add links to a word cloud chart to interact with external systems.
Example of a word cloud chart
Configure a word cloud chart
When you create a word cloud chart, you must specify Word (DIM.) and Word Size (Mea.).
On the Field tab, add a dimension and a measure based on your business requirements to the word cloud chart.
Method 1: The word sizes are determined by the values of the measure. If you use this method, you need to add a dimension and a measure to the word cloud chart.
On the Field tab, add the required dimension and measure.
In the Dimension list, double-click city. You can also drag this dimension to the Word (Dim.) section.
In the measure list, double-click order_number. You can also drag this measure to the Word Size (Mea.) section.
Click Update to update the word cloud chart.
The following figure shows the updated word cloud chart.
Method 2: The size of each word is determined by its frequency. If you use this method, you need to only add a dimension to the word cloud chart.
On the Field tab, add the required dimension.
In the Dimension list, double-click sentence. You can also drag this dimension to the Word (Dim.) section.
Click Update to update the word cloud chart.
The following figure shows the updated word cloud chart. If sentences are too long for a word cloud chart to identify keywords, you can select Word Segmentation as Word Cloud Mode to present keywords. For more information, see the "Word segmentation" section of this topic.
Word segmentation
Sentences are intelligently broken down into words in word segmentation mode.
If you add only a dimension to a word cloud chart, the size of each word that is obtained after word segmentation is determined by its frequency.
If you add a dimension and a measure to a word cloud chart, the size of each word that is obtained after word segmentation is determined by its value.
Configure the styles of a word cloud chart
In the Basic Information section, configure the following parameters:
1. Show Title and Description
2. Show Link
3. Description
4. Footer
5. Card margin
In the Style Settings section, configure Word Cloud Mode, Word Cloud Shape, Display Text Vertically, and Word Size Range.
Parameter | Example |
Word Cloud Mode | |
Word Cloud Shape | |
Display Text Vertically | |
Word Size Range | You can customize word sizes to produce significant differences of the text. |
Limits
When you add data to a word cloud chart, take note of the following limits:
You can specify no more than one dimension for Word Size (Mea.).
You can specify only one dimension for Word (Dim.).
What to do next
You can share your dashboard with others. For more information, see Share a dashboard.
If you want to create a navigation menu for thematic analysis, you can integrate your dashboard into a business intelligence (BI) portal. For more information, see Create a BI portal.