For teaching purposes, word clouds are a great way to begin introducing tagging and metadata and visual representations of text. Generally, word clouds depict word frequency, significance, or categorization / relationships in a given text as a weighted list. Although simple and limited in what they communicate, these visualizations can be just as effective as more traditional charts and graphs as well as some infographics.
First popularized over a decade ago via photo sharing platforms like Flickr and the social bookmarking site, these images’ are still commonplace in posters, presentations, business memos and communications, social media posts, and memes. Regardless of you call them, everyone seems to like these visual representations of text data. Word clouds, data clouds, tag clouds, text clouds.
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