Visualize text frequency with {wordcloud}

Python
Visualization
Author

Chris Lo

Published

September 19, 2024

A wordcloud is a simple data visualization tool for looking at frequency of text data, and quickly answers what are some of the most common words that show up in a body of text by the font size. We show how to make wordclouds via the wordcloud Python module.

Show your data

We download US Presidential State of the Union speeches as a demo dataset - from Washington to Obama.

Demonstrate wordcloud

Your turn!

What happens when you change the max_font_size?