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Tag Cloud

Tag cloud (or word cloud, or weighted list) is a visual representation of text data where tag size shows the frequency of the tag in some data set.

Learn how to build Tag clouds with amCharts 5 in this extensive article.

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<style>
#chartdiv {
  width: 100%;
  height: 600px;
}
</style>

<!-- Resources -->
<script src="https://cdn.amcharts.com/lib/5/index.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.amcharts.com/lib/5/wc.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.amcharts.com/lib/5/themes/Animated.js"></script>

<!-- Chart code -->
<script>
am5.ready(function() {

// 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)
]);


// Add wrapper container
var container = root.container.children.push(am5.Container.new(root, {
  width: am5.percent(100),
  height: am5.percent(100),
  layout: root.verticalLayout
}));


// Add chart title
var title = container.children.push(am5.Label.new(root, {
  text: "Most popular languages on StackOverflow",
  fontSize: 20,
  x: am5.percent(50),
  centerX: am5.percent(50)
}));


// Add series
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/charts/word-cloud/
var series = container.children.push(am5wc.WordCloud.new(root, {
  categoryField: "tag",
  valueField: "weight",
  calculateAggregates: true // this is needed for heat rules to work
}));


// Set up heat rules
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/charts/word-cloud/#Via_heat_rules
series.set("heatRules", [{
  target: series.labels.template,
  dataField: "value",
  min: am5.color(0xFFD4C2),
  max: am5.color(0xFF621F),
  key: "fill"
}]);


// Configure labels
series.labels.template.setAll({
  paddingTop: 5,
  paddingBottom: 5,
  paddingLeft: 5,
  paddingRight: 5,
  fontFamily: "Courier New",
  cursorOverStyle: "pointer"
});


// Add click event on words
// https://www.amcharts.com/docs/v5/charts/word-cloud/#Events
series.labels.template.events.on("click", function(ev) {
  const category = ev.target.dataItem.get("category");
  window.open("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/" + encodeURIComponent(category));
});


// Data from:
// https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-popular-technologies-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages
series.data.setAll([
  { tag: "JavaScript", weight: 64.96 },
  { tag: "HTML/CSS", weight: 56.07 },
  { tag: "Python", weight: 48.24 },
  { tag: "SQL", weight: 47.08 },
  { tag: "Java", weight: 35.35 },
  { tag: "Node.js", weight: 33.91 },
  { tag: "TypeScript", weight: 30.19 },
  { tag: "C#", weight: 27.86 },
  { tag: "Bash/Shell", weight: 27.13 },
  { tag: "C++", weight: 24.31 },
  { tag: "PHP", weight: 21.98 },
  { tag: "C", weight: 21.01 },
  { tag: "PowerShell", weight: 10.75 },
  { tag: "Go", weight: 9.55 },
  { tag: "Kotlin", weight: 8.32 },
  { tag: "Rust", weight: 7.03 },
  { tag: "Ruby", weight: 6.75 },
  { tag: "Dart", weight: 6.02 },
  { tag: "Assembly", weight: 5.61 },
  { tag: "Swift", weight: 5.1 },
  { tag: "R", weight: 5.07 },
  { tag: "VBA", weight: 4.66 },
  { tag: "Matlab", weight: 4.66 },
  { tag: "Groovy", weight: 3.01 },
  { tag: "Objective-C", weight: 2.8 },
  { tag: "Scala", weight: 2.6 },
  { tag: "Perl", weight: 2.46 },
  { tag: "Haskell", weight: 2.12 },
  { tag: "Delphi", weight: 2.1 },
  { tag: "Clojure", weight: 1.88 },
  { tag: "Elixir", weight: 1.74 },
  { tag: "LISP", weight: 1.33 },
  { tag: "Julia", weight: 1.29 },
  { tag: "F#", weight: 0.97 },
  { tag: "Erlang", weight: 0.79 },
  { tag: "APL", weight: 0.65 },
  { tag: "Crystal", weight: 0.56 },
  { tag: "COBOL", weight: 0.53 },
]);

}); // end am5.ready()
</script>

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