WordSwarm generates dynamic word clouds in which the word size changes as the animation moves forward through the corpus. The top words from the preprocessing are colored randomly or from an assigned pallet, sized according to their magnitude at the first date, and then displayed in a pseudo-random location on the screen. The animation progresses into the future by growing or shrinking each word according to its frequency in the corpus at the next date. Clash detection is achieved using a 2D physics engine, which also applies ‘gravitational force’ to each word, bringing the larger words closer to the center of the screen. … Wordswarm