Word Clouds Revisited

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Word Clouds Revisited
• Website: Data Skeptic
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• Published: 2018-01-15 01:00

Listeners to the Data Skeptic podcast will recall an episode in which I put forward a call to arms suggesting: Let's kill the word cloud. I gave my strongest arguments for why I hate word clouds, but I didn't provide any empirical support for my point of view. Lucky for me, a new study fills in this gap.