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Working with word clouds in Coda

Use the word cloud chart type to visualize the text data in your table.


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Word cloud basics

Word clouds in Coda are a chart type option to help visualize data in a table. The frequency of each word determines its size and prominence in the visualization.

Word clouds are a great way for writers to understand if they're "overusing" certain words and for teams to find key themes in their sentiment tracking or feedback analysis workflows. Webmasters and search advertisers might also use this feature to identify keywords for SEO and paid campaigns.

Coda gives you control over which data sets (columns) contribute text for analysis and visualization, and also allows you to exclude a set of common English language words (a, an, the, to, etc) or indicate your own set of words to exclude.

 

Create and modify a word cloud

Word clouds in Coda are derived from text in tables. For more about tables in Coda, click here.

Word clouds can analyze one or more columns of data in a table. If you want to analyze several paragraphs of text, consider copying them and pasting them into a new table.

If your text is already in a table or view, follow these steps to generate your word cloud:

  1. Hover over the table, and click on Options in the upper-right corner

  2. Select See all options from the menu

  3. At the top of the right-hand panel, you'll see various display types. Click on More, then select Word cloud from the list

 

To further customize your word cloud at any time, just hover over the word cloud, click Options, then select Word cloud display from the menu. Then you can make any of the following adjustments:

  1. Select the column(s) of data you wish to visualize in the Words drop-down. If you wish to visualize multiple columns, click the plus icon (+) just above this drop-down menu.

  2. By default, Excluded common words is toggled on, and will remove common English Language words from the visualization set. You can choose to toggle this setting off to include common words.

  3. If you wish to exclude additional words from your visualization set, enter them in the Additional excluded words field. Words should be comma-separated.

 

 

FAQs

What languages are supported in word clouds?

At this time, word clouds in Coda only support words expressed in the Roman, Latin, or Cyrillic characters. Traditional Chinese characters, for example, are not supported at this time.

Are you showing all of my selected words in Word Clouds? Is there a cap?

Word Clouds will render using, at most, the Top 100 words from your selected text.

 

 

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