GDS-Word-Cloud

Visualize word clouds easily in Google Data Studio

Installation

Add a community visualization with either of the GDS-Word-Cloud distributions.

• Dev: gs://gds-word-cloud-dev Unstable. Changes made often.
• Prod: gs://gds-word-cloud-prod More stable. Should be good 👍

Data

Unlike most data visualizations, word clouds don't have an obvious 2-dimensional relationship. That said, every GDS visualization requires a 2-dimensional data input: the values, and the "metrics".

For GDS-Word-Cloud, the data are any text fields in your data set (up to 5), which are merged into one body for processing.

The metrics are the count of those text fields. For most free-form text, this will always yield a "text value": 1 relationship in the data, but for duplicates, the visualization considers it more prevalent (i.e. "text value": 2 is processed as "text value. text value").

Both of these fields must be present for the visualization to work properly.

Style

The only exposed style variations are font color and family. Font family is fairly obvious, but font color works like this:

1. If no color is specified, use random colors depending on the Show dark background flag.
2. If a color is specified, use that color only.

• If the Vary colors slightly flag is set, lighten or darken the color of each word, slightly, at random.