Word Cloud in Tableau

A Word Cloud in Tableau is a visual representation of text data where the size of each word reflects its frequency or importance, making it easy to identify the most common or influential terms within a dataset at a glance.

• Highlights frequently occurring words
• Uses text size to show importance
• Helps analyse unstructured text data
• Quickly reveals key themes
• Useful for reviews, feedback and social media analysis

Implementation

Steps to illustrate Word Chart in Tableau:

• Open the Tableau tool and connect a dataset to it.
• Drag and drop the one sheet of the connected dataset.
• Click on Sheet1 to open the Tableau worksheet.
• On clicking Sheet1, you will get the whole dataset attributes on the left side and a worksheet for work.

• To draw a word cloud you have to select minimum one attributes by drag and drop into the sheet area then apply the other parameters for better visualization.

Example 1

In this example, we simply illustrate a word cloud and apply an attribute by size on it.

Example 2

This example uses the above example with some extra marks (apply the filter and color marks) and which are shown easily below.

Example 3

This example is similar to example 1 but uses different fields and visualization features with more clarification of the whole procedure.