ECharts Word Cloud
A tag-cloud where each word's size is proportional to its weight (frequency, sentiment intensity, vote count) — built with the echarts-wordcloud plugin on top of Apache ECharts. The plugin packs words tightly without overlap using a spiral algorithm, supports multi-colour palette
Template details
- chart
- word-cloud
- tag-cloud
- text
- frequency
- echarts
When to use this template
This visualization quickly reveals the most salient terms or concepts within a body of text, making it easy to grasp the overall gist or dominant themes at a glance. Analysts use it to summarize qualitative data, identify trending keywords, or highlight frequently occurring items where a precise rank order is less important than immediate visual impact and overall impression.
- Unstructured text data requiring quick summarization.
- Categorical data with an associated numerical weight or frequency.
- Datasets where relative importance is more crucial than exact ranking.
- Single-column text entries needing keyword or phrase extraction.
- Data where item frequency is the primary insight to convey.
- Moderate cardinality lists of terms (tens to hundreds).