A word cloud is an image made of words that together resemble a cloudy shape.
The size of a word shows how important it is e.g. how often it appears in a text — its frequency.
People typically use word clouds to easily produce a summary of large documents (reports, speeches), to create art on a topic (gifts, displays) or to visualise data (tables, surveys).
Created using python libraries such as Flask and wordcloud.
It is a Data visualization method to represent data into a form of wordcloud.
Focusing on this idea, this is a local web app for creating wordclouds. Even the most unfamiliar person could generate wordclouds using this web app.
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Open your command prompt
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Navigate to the directory where all the files are stored
cd Shivang\desktop\project
- Install the requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Run the main application file
python app.py
- Open browser and type
localhost:5000
- Your web application is ready to use
You are ready to click the generate wordcloud button, that is the last step of all these.
Enter string: steve jobs
And using all the default parameters, the output is
Read my blog about Wordcloud generator on Medium