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Word Cloud Chart

DataArts Insight allows you to create a word cloud, which is a colorful graphic made up of words that resemble a cloud. It is used to display large amounts of textual data. This section describes how to create a word cloud chart.

Notes and Constraints

  • At least two fields are required for a dimension.
  • At least one field is required for a metric.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. In the top navigation bar on the dashboard creation page, click to create a word cloud chart.
  2. Select a dataset in the Data area.
  3. Set parameters on the Field, Style, and Advanced tabs.
  1. Click Update. The system automatically updates the chart.
    Figure 1 Word cloud chart

Field

Set the fields of the word cloud chart.

  1. In the right pane of the dashboard creation page, click Field. Select the required dimension and metric.
  2. Set a filter.
    1. Drag dimension and metric fields to the Filter area.
    2. Click next to a field in the Filter area.
    3. In the displayed Set Filter dialog box, set the parameters and click OK.
      Table 1 Filter parameters

      Type

      Parameter

      Description

      String

      Condition

      Filter Mode: The options are Condition and Enumeration.

      Condition Type: The options are And condition and Or condition.

      Filter Condition: The options are Exact match, Contain, Start with, End with, Not match, Not contain, Null, and Not null.

      Enumeration

      Query Mode: The options are Single-select and multi-select.

      Filter Condition: The options are >, ≥, <, ≤, =, ≠, Null, and Not null.

      Metric

      Condition Type

      The options are And condition and Or condition.

      Filter Condition

      The options are >, ≥, <, ≤, =, ≠, Null, and Not null. You can select Before aggregation and After aggregation for data.

      NOTE:

      If you select Before aggregation, data is filtered before aggregation. If you select After aggregation, data is filtered after aggregation. For aggregation concepts, see Creating a Dataset.

      You can click Create Filter Condition to set multiple filter criteria.

      Date

      Range value

      Select a time range for filtering.

      Single value

      Set a single time for filtering.

      Condition

      You can select And condition or Or condition as the condition type and select filter condition like >, ≥, <, ≤, and =.

      You can click Create Filter Condition to set multiple filter criteria.
  3. Set the maximum number of query results.

    Enter the maximum number of records that can be returned in the text box. The default value is 1000.

  4. Set automatic refresh.

    The auto refresh interval supports the following options: no refresh, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, and 30 minutes.

Style

Set word cloud style parameters based on Table 2 and Table 3.

Table 2 Basic Settings

Parameter

Description

Card Title

Whether to display the card title. If selected, the card title is displayed in the upper left corner of the chart.

Text

Set the text size and click to select the text color.

Alignment

Set the alignment mode, which can be left alignment or center alignment.

Bottom Margin

Set the distance between the card title and the chart.

Divider

Whether to display the divider. You can set the size, color, and bottom margin of the divider.

Card Background

Whether to display the card background. Click to select a background color.

Status Icon

Whether to display the status icon. You can set the display mode and color of icons. The display modes include Always display and Hover display.

Hide Panel Operations

You can customize whether to display in the upper right corner of the chart.

Panel No Padding

You can customize whether to cancel card padding.
Table 3 Chart style parameters

Parameter

Description

Color Scheme

Set the color scheme of the word cloud, either by using the system default or selecting your own.

Word Cloud Shape

Set the shape of the word cloud.

Computation Mode

Set the calculation mode to either relative size or emphasis.

Custom Word Size Range

Set the size of custom words.

NOTE:

If the checkbox is not selected, the system default range of 12–60 will be used. If the text size is set too large, the system will automatically adjust it to the displayable range.

Vertical Text Display

Choose to display word groups vertically.

Value Settings

Set the context, units, scientific notation, use of thousand separators, and decimal places for numerical values.

Tooltip

Set the background color, dimension text, indicator text, and numerical values for the tooltip.

Advanced

  • Linkage

    Click the Advanced tab and click next to Linkage. The Chart Linkage Settings page is displayed. Set parameters. For details, see Linkage example.

    Table 4 Chart linkage settings

    Parameter

    Description

    Fields to Bound

    Select the fields to be bound first and then select the chart to be associated with them. You can select all charts on the dashboard.

    Associated Charts

    Set linked associated charts. You can select charts from the same dataset or different datasets.

    • Follow bound field: When the bound field is set to A, the associated data tables filter data related to A.
    • SQL placeholder: The bound field value corresponds to the value set for the SQL placeholder in the dataset.
  • Initialize Query for Associated Query Control: whether the associated query control supports query initialization. If the checkbox is selected (), the control supports query initialization. If the checkbox is not selected (), the control does not support query initialization.

    If you select this option, when a chart is linked to a query control and the query control does not have a default query set, the chart's data configuration will be queried during chart initialization.

Parent topic: Other