# Python text visualization libraries

> Word clouds and visual comparisons of documents. 2 tools, ranked by GitHub stars.

Libraries for visualizing text. WordCloud generates word clouds, and scattertext plots which terms set one group of documents apart from another.

| # | Tool | GitHub stars | Commits (12 mo) | License | Description |
|---:|---|---:|---:|---|---|
| 1 | [WordCloud](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/wordcloud/) | 10,542 | 5 | MIT | Word cloud generator for Python. |
| 2 | [scattertext](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/scattertext/) | 2,348 | 1 | Apache-2.0 | Interactive scatterplot visualizations of how language differs between groups of documents. |

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