# Simple Word Cloud from Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-word-cloud-from-elasticsearch/40889>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [February 3, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-word-cloud-from-elasticsearch/40889 "2016-02-03T16:59:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LeeSyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LeeSyd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeSyd)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-word-cloud-from-elasticsearch/40889/1 "2016-02-03T16:59:22Z")

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Hi all,

I have data coming in to Elasticsearch from our Helpdesk system and would like to create a couple of word clouds, one just on occurrences of terms to show most frequent incidents/applications and one on significant terms to highlight recent and increasing incidents and problems.

I've found detail on the web from Jason Davies on using d3 and have had a go at implementing a word cloud but being relatively new to Linux and not being a developer, am having trouble getting things working.

Do any of you have wordclouds working and wouldn't mind sharing code and a step-by-step guide on implementing, or could point me at a good tutorial on getting it working with Elasticsearch and publishing out with nginx or nodejs (or other recommendations)?

Thanks,

Lee

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**Author:** ![stormpython](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stormpython/32/7190_2.png) [@stormpython](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stormpython)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-word-cloud-from-elasticsearch/40889/2 "2016-02-11T18:49:40Z")

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LeeSyd,

If you use Kibana 4.3 or above, you can install a word cloud plugin. The repo and instructions for installing are [here](https://github.com/stormpython/tagcloud).

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**Author:** ![LeeSyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8dc957/32.png) [@LeeSyd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeSyd)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-word-cloud-from-elasticsearch/40889/3 "2016-02-15T10:09:03Z")

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Completely missed availability of your plugin.

Great plugin and does exactly what I was looking to achieve. Thank you,

Lee

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-word-cloud-from-elasticsearch/40889/4 "2017-07-06T13:44:43Z")

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