CloudCover

A repository for the R functions used to create the simplified word clouds described in Maurits et al 2022 (link to manuscript). Included are also the survey used in the study (Supplementary File I) and the sensitivity analysis results (Supplementary File II)

Setup

1. Download the Function.r file in /R and place in your working directory
2. Read the functions into your R session using source("/Functions.r")
3. Make sure you have installed and loaded the required dependencies
   • magick
   • ggplot2
   • gridExtra
   • colorRamps

Usage

The functions plotCloudSA() and plotCloudST() respectively scale words by their surface area and their font size, using the same optional parameters.

• max_words determines the maximum number of words to include in the plot (integer)
• order makes it so the most frequent word is on the bottom and the least frequent on the top (logical)
• font determines extra font attributes, 1 = normal, 2 = bold, 3 = italic and 4 = both bold & italic
• party assigns random colours to words (logical)
• cap determines whether words are in all-caps ("all"), no-caps ("none"), or as provided ("as.is")

Input data should be of the format:

word	freq
Pizza	15
Spons	30
Gozer	60
Krimp	120
Joker	240

Examples

The below images were created using the Script.r file in /R on the identical included example data

Font size scaling method

Surface area scaling method