How to Remove Words From a Word Cloud

After creating a Word Cloud, you may notice some words that you don't care about in the cloud. You can tidy the data and remake the cloud (see How to Use Text Analytics to Tidy a Word Cloud) to see if this fixes the issue and/or remove those individual words from the cloud manually. This article describes how to edit your Word Cloud:

to remove uninteresting words and phrases (eg. "a", "it's", "as", "no", etc.):

Requirements

Please note this requires the Data Stories module or a Displayr license.

A word cloud created from a Text variable or a standard single-column table from a categorical variable. See How to Create a Word Cloud for further details.

Method

Select your Word Cloud on the Page.
The Ignore list will appear to the right of the word cloud. You'll notice that by default Displayr automatically hides a list of common, uninteresting words (eg "in", "all", etc).
To add words to the Ignore list, click on the word in the word cloud and drag it to the Ignore list. Your word cloud will automatically update each time a word is added to the list.