Wordcloud widget

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Hi,

Following a request to create a collaborative wordcloud during workshops (like Wooclap or Kahoot), I created a small widget that meets the needs thanks to Grist.

Widget Presentation

The widget is available with this custom URL.

Code is available in this repo.

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The widget takes as input a column of words and optionally an associated frequency.

There are several settings to customize the wordcloud.

A button is available to display the wordcloud in full screen.

Using the Widget

  1. Create a table with the question to ask to participants
  2. Create the form that will receive participants’ responses

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  1. Add a view with the custom URL of the wordcloud widget that has as data source the table created previously grouped by the question column.
  2. Select the column mappings:
    a. Word: your question
    b. Frequency: count

And there you go! When someone fills out the form, the word is automatically added to the wordcloud with the size adapting according to the number of responses.

Bonus: presentation mode

If you want to display only the wordcloud in presentation mode, you can create a dedicated page with only the widget and add ?embed=true at the end of this page’s URL.

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