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How to: Narrow a Search Using Word Cloud

The Word Cloud is a textual chart that is built into Magnify to make it easier to narrow a search. The Word Cloud is an accumulation of the most frequently found words across the search results returned. The Word Cloud always shows words as part of the latest result set.

Word Cloud presents words related to your search in a cloud-like image. You can click on these words to quickly refine the search.

Specifically, when you click on a word or a sequential series of words in the Word Cloud, your search results are modified based on what you select. For example, if a search was conducted on the word video, some of the words that might display in the Word Cloud include DVR, camera, and recording. When you click on one of these words, your results narrow based on that selection. In most cases, the search results in the display of fewer records.

Note: Word Cloud terms are populated based on the most frequent terms found for each search result and then aggregated for all search results returned. In contrast, clicking the More Like This link for a search result locates the words that are most frequently found in the index for each search result.

The following image shows the Word Cloud when a search has been conducted on the term video.

You can access Word Cloud by clicking the top box in the list of categories, as shown in the following image. You can collapse Word Cloud by clicking the box again.

Note: You may encounter instances where the Word Cloud is empty or disappears from the left pane of the search result area. This occurs when performing a search where a very limited number of results are returned or where the original searchable content is also very limited. There may not be a large enough pool of words to create the Word Cloud.

The following image shows an example when the World Cloud is empty for a search result.

The following image shows an example when the World Cloud category has disappeared from the left pane of the search result area.

The list view, accessed by clicking the list icon , typically contains a list of items within a specific category (for example, France within the Country category). The list view presents all the values found among the returned search result set for each given category. In the list view, these specific items are listed alphabetically with a numerical reference that indicates the number of returned records, based on your search, for that particular item. Once accessed, the List view can be collapsed by clicking the category label (for example, Country). The following image shows the list view for Country.

Note: There will always be one value preceded with a red dot to represent the item with the highest count.

Topics: Usage Considerations

The chart view, accessed by clicking the chart icon , provides a simplified graphical representation of the same categorizations presented in the list view of a Category, based on a 100 percent value. A combination of total count of values found or the percentage a category value comprises can be presented as metrics within each slice.

Note: Percentage is the default for all charts.

The following image shows a chart with percentage values for each entry.

Note: On Android 2.x devices, charts are not supported and are therefore hidden from the interface.

By default, a chart has seven slices (excluding the Other slice), each representing a category of data. If more than seven values are found, any remaining values will be presented together in a slice labeled Other.

Note: The number of slices that have been specified to display can impact the colors presented. For example, if the number of slices to show is set to 100 and there are only 18 colors established, some colors will be used more than once.

You can click the Other slice to drill down into the more specific underlying data. The following image shows the contents of the Other slice for State, a category that typically has more than eight underlying categories.

When working with a chart that has a number of underlying data layers, you can drill down through these items by clicking on the Other slice portion of the chart. You can navigate the layers of the chart using the arrows provided. The smaller arrow takes you up one level (to the previous data layer) and the larger arrow returns you to the originating display of the chart.

Note: When you click on a section of a chart, the data that was originally returned is narrowed by the value of your chart selection. For example, if you conduct a search and you want to view only the data for Germany, you can click the Country category and then from the Chart icon, select Germany. The data that is returned is specific to Germany (based on your search).