🔤 Text / Frequency Charts – Word Cloud & Word Frequency Bar

Last Updated: 24 Sept 2025

These charts are used when data is text-based (like sentences, documents, reviews).

Word Cloud → shows most frequent words using font size.
Word Frequency Bar Chart → shows word counts using bars.

✏ When to Use?

For text analysis (tweets, reviews, news articles).
To find most common words quickly.
As a visual summary in reports.

🎨 Color & Style Tips

Use contrasting colors for readability.
Avoid too many stopwords ("the", "is", "and") — remove them.
Keep bar charts sorted (highest frequency first).
Word Clouds should not be overcrowded (50–100 words max).

Dos & Don’ts

✅ Do

Preprocess text (remove stopwords, punctuation).
Highlight important keywords.
Use consistent color palettes.

❌ Don’t

Don’t use Word Cloud for exact comparisons (bar chart is better).
Don’t overcrowd with too many words.
Don’t forget labels in bar charts.

1. Word Cloud

Let us consider the following data:

text = "data science machine learning python data visualization data python learning"

You want to create a word cloud to show the most frequent words.

2. Word Frequency Bar Chart

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