Although McGee’s post was entitled “9 best word cloud generators”, only eight platforms were described. but may have been posted in 2017) by Maxwell McGee for a list of popular platforms. I referred to 2 blog posts, 8 best free word cloud creation tools for teachers (November 24, 2013) by Christopher Pappas and The 9 best word cloud generators (n.d. For this post, let’s explore free-to-use web-based platforms that support word cloud generation. In my earlier word cloud post, we looked at a free word cloud app available from the Microsoft store. We can now generate word clouds using Power BI, Tableau, and packages / modules in Python and R. While the popularity of word clouds to visualise word frequency has abated since 2004, its use has not been entirely abandoned. Feature Image: Lincoln’s Gettysburg address visualised using Jason Davies’s Word Cloud Generator
