More Charts with ggplot2
Learn to build few advanced charts like word cloud, parliament diagram, waffle chart, and hexbin chart using ggplot2.
Introduction to word cloud
A word cloud is a graph representing text data by frequency, i.e., the most frequently occurring words in a text are displayed with larger font sizes. This chart type helps visualize the main topics in a text and can be used to quickly identify important words or phrases.
Getting started with the ggwordcloud
package
We’ll create a word cloud in ggplot
using the ggwordcloud
package, an R package designed specifically for creating word clouds.
First, let’s import the ggwordcloud
package:
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