Word Cloud Stop Words from Data File

[ChemEnger]

I have used a table with multiple paragraphs of text (ACTIVITY_SUMMARY in Right First Time table) as the source data for a Word Cloud and want to include custom Stop Words from a separate file.

I have imported the stop words (Stop Word in Exclusions table) and added an index to both tables and connected them with a One:One Both directions cross filter connection but the words in the Exclusions table are still appearing in the word cloud.

(Indexing, linking from https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Word-Cloud-stop-words-from-data/td-p/115890)

I have tried all different valid connection types between the two tables and I have tried restricting the data in the Right First Time table but nothing works.

Any help gratefully received - I feel that this should just work 'out of the box?!

[parry2k]

@ChemEnger I think I know what is going on. Do you have time to jump on a Teams/Zoom call. Reach out directly to me via email, my email is in my signature. Will be easier to discuss and go over it.

[parry2k]

@ChemEnger I know it is a custom visual and didn't play with it much. if you can share pbix file I can take a look. 

[ChemEnger]

Hi @parry2k,

It's taken me a while (but I have written a sweet word-shuffle function!) to cleanse the data and I have now uploaded three files to Github:

• Word Cloud.pbix - Power BI Desktop file
  • There are two filters - one for 'Date Performed' and one for a Right First Time' measure from a Calculated Column
• StopWords.xlsx  - Stop Words
• word_cloud_data.txt - Raw data (comma separated)

All are saved on GitHub at https://github.com/ChemEnger/PowerBIWordCloud 

In brief, I have no idea whay the Stop Words aren't working!!

[parry2k]

@ChemEnger not sure you need to create that relationship. Remove it and then test it.

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[ChemEnger]

Hi @parry2k,

Thanks for the suggestion.  This is where I started from as I thought it was the logical approach, but I get this error message: