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Writer's pictureAmmu Fredy

Let's create word cloud chart in Tableau



What is word cloud explain?

A 'word cloud' is a visual representation of word frequency. The more commonly the term appears within the text being analyzed, the larger the word appears in the image generated. Word clouds are increasingly being employed as a simple tool to identify the focus of written material.


How to create a word cloud in Tableau?

Prerequisite

  1. I am using Tableau Public

  2. The sample data set of the superstore is used for creating this chart

Steps

1. Connect to the data source and load the superstore excel file

2. Order table is used to create a word cloud chart

3.Place the city in color, and text in the mark pane



4. We need to create a calculated field for calculating the count of city name to know the frequency.



5. Place the countcity1 measure in the size of mark pane


6. We can add the filter to display the name with high frequency means count above 50

for that

7. Now we can give shade to the word cloud to make it more pretty


This is the method to create a word cloud. This chart is helpful When we need to highlight the reviews for shops and food stalls.


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