![]() For word clouds, I prefer to use condensed font families, as they can allow for more information to be displayed in the word cloud. Let’s use the word counts of titles of submissions to the /r/dataisbeautiful subreddit on Reddit which have scored at least 100 points (using the Reddit data dump located on BigQuery).Īdditionally, we can improve on the design of the default word cloud output by forcing all-caps text and by changing the text font. Why not make a word cloud which looks like a line chart? ![]() Reddit Data and Thematic Iconsįont Awesome has icons for charts, which logically appeals to me as a data person. Now every Font Awesome icon can be used as a word cloud mask! And the icons can be exported at any size: for this post, I render the word clouds at 2048x2048px, larger than most desktop screens! After hacking the Python scripts included with the package which were used to create the default word clouds, I managed to create a few interesting examples.
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