Word cloud

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Charts are available with Avalonia Pro.

Word clouds represent text data by varying word size based on frequency or importance. They provide an immediate visual summary of qualitative content or popular topics.

When to use

• Search Trends: Visualizing the most common keywords in a query log.
• Sentiment Analysis: Highlighting prominent words in customer reviews.
• Content Summarization: Showing the main themes of a long article or document.

Code example

XAML

<charts:WordCloudChart Title="Popular Topics" Height="300"
                                             ItemsSource="{Binding WordCloudData}"
                                             WordPath="Word" WeightPath="Count"/>

Data model (C#)

public record WordItem(string Word, double Count);

public ObservableCollection<WordItem> WordCloudData { get; } = new()
{
    new("Technology", 80),
    new("Innovation", 65),
    new("Digital", 55),
    new("Cloud", 50),
    new("AI", 70),
    new("Data", 60),
    new("Security", 45),
    new("Mobile", 40),
    new("Development", 35),
    new("Analytics", 30),
    new("Performance", 25),
    new("User", 45),
    new("Interface", 40)
};

Common properties

Property	Description	Default
ItemsSource	The collection of word/weight data.	null
WordPath	Property name for the actual text word.	null
WeightPath	Numerical property determining font size.	null
MinFontSize	Smallest font size in pixels.	12.0
MaxFontSize	Largest font size in pixels.	48.0
MaxWords	Maximum number of words rendered.	50
RotateWords	Whether some words may be rotated vertically.	true