Mastering Python for Data Science

Creating a wordcloud

A worldcloud is a collage of words and those words that are bigger in size have a high frequency.

You can download wordcloud with the following command if you use Ubuntu:

$ pip install git+git://github.com/amueller/word_cloud.git

You can follow the instructions to do this by referring to https://github.com/amueller/word_cloud.

Let's plot the wordcloud for the BBC by using the following code:

>>> wordcloud = WordCloud(width = 1000, height = 500).generate(' '.join(data['bbc']))

>>> plt.figure(figsize=(15,8))

>>> plt.imshow(wordcloud)

>>> plt.axis("off")

>>> plt.show()

From the preceding wordcloud, we can make out that there are ...