How to Create a Word Cloud

Word clouds / tag clouds are an effective way of visualising the main themes in a piece of text.

Here is an example word cloud for Game of Thrones (based on the introduction on Wikipedia):

It’s clear from this word cloud that Game of Thrones is a television drama by HBO, which is violent, and has been nominated for many awards.

Sumupr makes it super simple to create nice looking word clouds, like the one above.

Just paste your content into the ‘Original Content’ text box, and click ‘Find Keywords’. A list of keywords will be shown, ordered by frequency. Click on the button with the eye icon, and a word cloud will automatically be created. The keywords are sized in proportion to the frequency with which they appear in your content.