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I have a table like this:

FirstName    SecondName     Amount
Lorenzo      Perone         100
Mario        Rossi          25
...          ...            ...

I'd like to create a "word cloud" using "Amount" as weight, is it possible using the "word cloud" tool? Thanks.

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    $\begingroup$ Word clouds are past their prime, but this should do if you insist: wordclouds.com $\endgroup$
    – Emre
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 8:05
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    – Johnceni
    Commented Aug 24, 2018 at 8:01

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I will give you a simple solution using R which requires the wordcloud package. Of course there are many other solutions which do not require any programming skills.

The solution is a slight varient of this R-Bloggers tutorial. Feel free to have a look there for further formatting.

library(wordcloud)

words = c('Paolo Gentiloni', 'Matteo Renzi', 
          'Enrico Letta', 'Mario Monti', 
          'Silvio Berlusconi', 'Romano Prodi')
freq = c(100, 25, 50, 70, 95, 20)

wordcloud(words = words, freq = freq, min.freq = 1,
          max.words=200, random.order=FALSE, rot.per=0.35, 
          colors=brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))

It produces the following output: Wordcloud of Italien prime ministers and random numbers

Btw. @Lorenzo Perone: Where the ones listed Italien names? I was not sure about that.

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  • $\begingroup$ I've names and weights in a csv, could you explain me how to load a csv in R? $\endgroup$
    – Lorenzo Perone
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 12:38
  • $\begingroup$ Within this it is explained. $\endgroup$
    – So S
    Commented Apr 20, 2017 at 12:43
  • $\begingroup$ I've loaded a csv correctly but when I run the script > wordcloud(mydata['Nome'], mydata['Contributo'], max.words = 300) I read Error in [.data.frame(words, ord <= max.words) : undefined columns selected $\endgroup$
    – Lorenzo Perone
    Commented Apr 21, 2017 at 14:25

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