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In December 2016, the Elastic Stack introduced a new visualization feature for Kibana called Tag Cloud, designed to enhance dashboards, reports, and presentations by visually representing data through collections of words or phrases sized according to a chosen metric. This feature allows users to map metric values to font sizes using linear, log, or square root scaling, offering flexibility in how data is presented. While tag clouds can be used for various applications, such as analyzing web traffic or visualizing themes like those in political speeches or fictional universes, users must consider space limitations and adjust settings to avoid overlapping or omitted tags. The Tag Cloud integrates seamlessly with Kibana's other features and can be added to dashboards for interactive data exploration, allowing users to filter and analyze data in a more engaging manner. Elastic Stack encourages feedback for further enhancements, signaling ongoing development for future Kibana visualizations in the 5.x releases.