Tableau

  f we load one of these files into Tableau (I'll stick with Don Quixote, but feel free to use whichever book you like best!), we get something that looks like: Let's pop over to a new sheet and see what we can do! If we drag the  Words  dimension onto the  Text  mark, we can view all the unique words in the book: ...well, almost. See how we only get partway through the As? There are too many unique words to fit! No problem, let's make a filter to show only those that appear at least 50 times: That's a little better: Let's see what happens if we try using  Word Count  to drive the  Size  mark: Ooh, sort of like a treemap! Let's switch from an  Automatic  mark type back to  Text : Hey, that's starting to look like a word cloud! There's just one problem: now that we've mapped  Word Count  to  Size , it's easy to see that the most frequently used words aren't actually very informative. That's okay, we can filter aga...