Word clouds have become more and more popular nowadays as it is a straightforward and efficient way to communicate data. The main advantage is that it helps to simplify the process of understanding complex diagrams which usually need some prerequisite knowledge to assist with digestion.

One rule represents the word cloud’s simplicity — the text size, i.e. the bigger the text the more important it is. This obvious feature assures that people from a variety of backgrounds understand the content easily.

In this article, we introduce an example of converting data collected from a toddler’s daily activities into a word cloud. The word cloud’s design helps to visualize the toddler’s activities into a way that parents and carers can easily see and then utilize to foster the way they educate the children.

Before diving into the technical details, let us check out the result first.

The above word clouds are based on teachers’ comments for a kid throughout a fixed period of time. The left cloud is the original language used in comments and the right word cloud is its Chinese translation. The words in bigger font size than others highlight the kid’s focus and sentiment communication with others.

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