Development of Word Cloud Generator Software Based on Python

A word cloud is a kind of weighted list to visualize language or text data, which gains increasing attention and more application opportunities as the big data time approaches. Currently, there has been some online word cloud generators available for users with simple requests, such as repeating the exact phrase, or collecting the text data from a web page. Moreover, most current word cloud generators cannot support characters other than English, which are limited in English-speaking users. There are also packages for programming languages (such as Python and R) to generate word clouds, which requires coding and is not user-friendly. This paper is focusing on developing a graphical user interface (GUI) software to generate word cloud maps with easy operations. The Python programming language is involved and some details are discussed. Finally the software is released for further application.