A word cloud that fills a shape: the words pack into the outline of a head, each sized by its weight. Here, what might be on someone’s mind, from money, family and work down to socks and wifi.
A shape tells the topic before a single word is read: a head for thoughts, a heart for what people love, a country’s outline for what its people say. It makes a poster or a title slide, but the shape takes the space a plain cloud would use, so the smallest words shrink further.
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The same chart as a JSON config. Chart Maker reads and writes this format, the library's JSON parser turns it into a chart, and the <am5-chart> element puts it on a page with no code."type" is the class to create and "settings" what you would pass to its new() in code; "properties" fill in its parts, lists such as series and axes or templates such as columns.template; "refs" holds objects used in more than one place ("#series-0" stands for the one named series-0); a string starting with "@" takes a value from another object, such as "@series.get('fill')".
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// Create root element
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/getting-started/#Root_element
var root = am5.Root.new("chartdiv");
// Set themes
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/concepts/themes/
root.setThemes([
am5themes_Animated.new(root),
am5themes_Responsive.new(root)
]);
// Head in profile, facing right. Drawn in a 250x250 box; the series scales it
// to the plot area. Clockwise from the crown:
// forehead > brow > nose > lips > chin > jaw > neck > base > back of the skull.
// Near-circular cranium, pointed nose, and a squared-off jaw block that
// overhangs the narrower neck, leaving a notch at the bottom right.
var headPath = "M 120 15 C 176 15 216 56 217 105 C 218 116 215 125 216 126 C 219 137 228 148 229 154 C 230 158 226 161 219 163 C 213 163 210 165 210 171 C 221 183 205 187 206 193 C 203 204 201 209 200 213 L 166 213 L 166 236 L 62 236 C 62 162 35 197 24 110 C 20 58 64 15 120 15 Z";
// Create a container for the series
var chart = root.container.children.push(am5.SerialChartContainer.new(root, {}));
// Add series
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/charts/word-cloud/
var series = chart.series.push(
am5wc.WordCloud.new(root, {
paddingTop: 20, // 20px of space around the cloud on each side
paddingBottom: 20,
paddingLeft: 20,
paddingRight: 20,
categoryField: "tag",
valueField: "weight", // the bigger the weight, the bigger the word
// The words fill this shape; a shapeTolerance of -5 keeps them 5px inside its
// edge, clear of the thick outline (the words would vanish into it)
svgPath: headPath,
shapeTolerance: -5,
// each word is horizontal or vertical, picked at random (randomizeAngles)
angles: [0, 90],
sequencedInterpolation: false, // all the words animate in at once, not one by one
randomizeAngles: true,
minFontSize: am5.percent(1), // the smallest words: 1% of the chart's shorter side...
maxFontSize: am5.percent(16) // ...the biggest 16%
})
);
// The outline of the head, in the text color so it shows on light and dark backgrounds
series.shape.setAll({
strokeWidth: 10,
// the outline stays 10px wide however much the shape is scaled
nonScalingStroke: true,
stroke: root.interfaceColors.get("text")
});
series.labels.template.setAll({
fontWeight: "500", // medium weight
tooltipText: "{category}: {value}" // hover a word for its weight
});
// Steep long tail on purpose: the top handful tower over everything, then a
// broad middle, then a lot of small stuff filling the gaps
series.data.setAll([
{ tag: "Money", weight: 200 },
{ tag: "Sex", weight: 190 },
{ tag: "Family", weight: 178 },
{ tag: "Work", weight: 165 },
{ tag: "Sleep", weight: 152 },
{ tag: "Love", weight: 142 },
{ tag: "Food", weight: 132 },
{ tag: "Future", weight: 120 },
{ tag: "Time", weight: 112 },
{ tag: "Health", weight: 104 },
{ tag: "Friends", weight: 96 },
{ tag: "Home", weight: 90 },
{ tag: "Death", weight: 84 },
{ tag: "Coffee", weight: 80 },
{ tag: "Weekend", weight: 74 },
{ tag: "Dreams", weight: 70 },
{ tag: "Career", weight: 66 },
{ tag: "Music", weight: 62 },
{ tag: "Travel", weight: 58 },
{ tag: "Kids", weight: 55 },
{ tag: "Bills", weight: 52 },
{ tag: "Deadlines", weight: 48 },
{ tag: "Holidays", weight: 46 },
{ tag: "Purpose", weight: 44 },
{ tag: "Exercise", weight: 42 },
{ tag: "Weather", weight: 40 },
{ tag: "Memories", weight: 38 },
{ tag: "Anxiety", weight: 36 },
{ tag: "News", weight: 35 },
{ tag: "Plans", weight: 33 },
{ tag: "Worries", weight: 32 },
{ tag: "Movies", weight: 30 },
{ tag: "Books", weight: 29 },
{ tag: "Rent", weight: 28 },
{ tag: "Goals", weight: 27 },
{ tag: "Politics", weight: 26 },
{ tag: "Pets", weight: 25 },
{ tag: "Regrets", weight: 24 },
{ tag: "Success", weight: 23 },
{ tag: "Freedom", weight: 22 },
{ tag: "Change", weight: 21 },
{ tag: "Growth", weight: 20 },
{ tag: "Shopping", weight: 19 },
{ tag: "Meaning", weight: 19 },
{ tag: "Chores", weight: 18 },
{ tag: "Tomorrow", weight: 18 },
{ tag: "Retirement", weight: 17 },
{ tag: "Failure", weight: 16 },
{ tag: "Silence", weight: 16 },
{ tag: "Guilt", weight: 15 },
{ tag: "Ambition", weight: 15 },
{ tag: "Aging", weight: 14 },
{ tag: "Loneliness", weight: 14 },
{ tag: "Traffic", weight: 13 },
{ tag: "Email", weight: 13 },
{ tag: "Debt", weight: 12 },
{ tag: "Diet", weight: 12 },
{ tag: "Promotion", weight: 11 },
{ tag: "Boss", weight: 11 },
{ tag: "Laundry", weight: 10 },
{ tag: "Keys", weight: 10 },
{ tag: "Doubt", weight: 10 },
{ tag: "Hope", weight: 9 },
{ tag: "Luck", weight: 9 },
{ tag: "Fame", weight: 9 },
{ tag: "Justice", weight: 8 },
{ tag: "Beauty", weight: 8 },
{ tag: "Karma", weight: 8 },
{ tag: "Rain", weight: 7 },
{ tag: "Snacks", weight: 7 },
{ tag: "Naps", weight: 7 },
{ tag: "Socks", weight: 6 },
{ tag: "Wifi", weight: 6 },
{ tag: "Dentist", weight: 6 },
{ tag: "Taxes", weight: 5 },
{ tag: "Batteries", weight: 5 },
{ tag: "Passwords", weight: 5 },
{ tag: "Parking", weight: 4 },
{ tag: "Groceries", weight: 4 },
{ tag: "Commute", weight: 4 },
{ tag: "Podcasts", weight: 3 },
{ tag: "Recipes", weight: 3 },
{ tag: "Neighbors", weight: 3 },
{ tag: "Insurance", weight: 3 },
{ tag: "Homework", weight: 2 },
{ tag: "Gossip", weight: 2 },
{ tag: "Chocolate", weight: 2 },
{ tag: "Stars", weight: 2 }
]);{
"type": "SerialChartContainer",
"properties": {
"series": [
"#series-0"
]
},
"refs": [
{
"data-0": [
{
"tag": "Money",
"weight": 200
},
{
"tag": "Sex",
"weight": 190
},
{
"tag": "Family",
"weight": 178
},
{
"tag": "Work",
"weight": 165
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{
"tag": "Sleep",
"weight": 152
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{
"tag": "Love",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"weight": 28
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{
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"weight": 27
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{
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{
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"weight": 25
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{
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"weight": 24
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{
"tag": "Success",
"weight": 23
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{
"tag": "Freedom",
"weight": 22
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{
"tag": "Change",
"weight": 21
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{
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"weight": 20
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{
"tag": "Shopping",
"weight": 19
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{
"tag": "Meaning",
"weight": 19
},
{
"tag": "Chores",
"weight": 18
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{
"tag": "Tomorrow",
"weight": 18
},
{
"tag": "Retirement",
"weight": 17
},
{
"tag": "Failure",
"weight": 16
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{
"tag": "Silence",
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{
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{
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"weight": 15
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{
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"weight": 14
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{
"tag": "Loneliness",
"weight": 14
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{
"tag": "Traffic",
"weight": 13
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{
"tag": "Email",
"weight": 13
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{
"tag": "Debt",
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{
"tag": "Diet",
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{
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{
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{
"tag": "Laundry",
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{
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{
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{
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{
"tag": "Luck",
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{
"tag": "Fame",
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{
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{
"tag": "Beauty",
"weight": 8
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{
"tag": "Karma",
"weight": 8
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{
"tag": "Rain",
"weight": 7
},
{
"tag": "Snacks",
"weight": 7
},
{
"tag": "Naps",
"weight": 7
},
{
"tag": "Socks",
"weight": 6
},
{
"tag": "Wifi",
"weight": 6
},
{
"tag": "Dentist",
"weight": 6
},
{
"tag": "Taxes",
"weight": 5
},
{
"tag": "Batteries",
"weight": 5
},
{
"tag": "Passwords",
"weight": 5
},
{
"tag": "Parking",
"weight": 4
},
{
"tag": "Groceries",
"weight": 4
},
{
"tag": "Commute",
"weight": 4
},
{
"tag": "Podcasts",
"weight": 3
},
{
"tag": "Recipes",
"weight": 3
},
{
"tag": "Neighbors",
"weight": 3
},
{
"tag": "Insurance",
"weight": 3
},
{
"tag": "Homework",
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},
{
"tag": "Gossip",
"weight": 2
},
{
"tag": "Chocolate",
"weight": 2
},
{
"tag": "Stars",
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}
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"paddingBottom": 20,
"paddingLeft": 20,
"paddingRight": 20,
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"svgPath": "M 120 15 C 176 15 216 56 217 105 C 218 116 215 125 216 126 C 219 137 228 148 229 154 C 230 158 226 161 219 163 C 213 163 210 165 210 171 C 221 183 205 187 206 193 C 203 204 201 209 200 213 L 166 213 L 166 236 L 62 236 C 62 162 35 197 24 110 C 20 58 64 15 120 15 Z",
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"properties": {
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"labels": {
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"tooltipText": "{category}: {value}"
}
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}
},
"shape": {
"settings": {
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"nonScalingStroke": true,
"stroke": "@root.interfaceColors.get('text')"
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}
}
}
}
]
}
