topic Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles? in ArcGIS Survey123 Questions

Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

AllenRisley — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:46:27 GMT

I love that Survey123 automatically creates word clouds from multi-line and single line text responses. What I don't like is that the word clouds include common words (articles, pronouns, etc.). that obscure the useful data. Is there any way to customize these word clouds?

Allen Risley

GIS Analyst

Cal State University San Marcos

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

JamesTedrick — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:24:52 GMT

Hi Allen,

We're considering this as a potential enhancement to the Analyze page, both as a standard list and possibly user customization.

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

AllenRisley — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:35:15 GMT

Glad to hear! I think it would be a welcomed addition.

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

AmberWittner — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:53:05 GMT

In addition it would be helpful if one could change from word cloud to list format for a specified question. Word cloud is cool, but I would like the ability to read entries individually when necessary.

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

PaulDoherty2 — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 14:49:17 GMT

Agreed. Here is a Survey I am analyzing right now...so many the, and, to. Perhaps it could be a simple UI/UX where if I click on the word it filters it out?

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

AndyLyons — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:58:26 GMT

I agree. Word clouds are not that useful for seeing patterns expressed in full sentences. If we could just have a table with the original comments submitted, that would be much more useful.

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

DanielleKulas — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 18:28:41 GMT

Agreed. It would be useful if you could control the default results view on the analyze tab... Would be much more useful to me to view responses, rather than words, by default.

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

IsmaelChivite — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:07:26 GMT

Here you go. No chocolate, but you get whole responses now!

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

IsmaelChivite — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:10:25 GMT

Implemented in https://community.esri.com/groups/survey123/blog/2019/02/01/national-weatherpersons-day-release-32 (English only) Thanks for your comments!

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

DanielleKulas — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:36:00 GMT

Thank you Ismael! Is there a way to specify 'show responses' as the default rather than 'show words'? It would be nice if that could be something the survey designer could customize for the Analyze tab.

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

AllenRisley — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:58:20 GMT

Thank you Ismael!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

SvenHarpering55 — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 12:15:21 GMT

Hi @IsmaelChivite,

is this feature also planned for other languages?

Re: Survey123 word clouds - remove articles?

Sherbert1848 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:38:53 GMT

This is excellent, but it would be even more helpful if we could add more words to exclude. I'm doing a park survey and all the names have "Park" in them; having "Park" and "Parks" be the most used words is not very helpful, and having a little list to filter out those extra words would be wonderful.

Thanks!