Update word cloud for D3 v6 #978
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Word clouds didn’t work for me with the latest version of SRF (which uses D3 v6.7.0) as some of the syntax and the D3 layout.cloud library included in the build were deprecated in recent D3 versions.
Replacing the deprecated 20-color category scale with a manually defined ordinal scale (not the original color scale but should be 20 distinctive and readable colors) and updating the old library to the latest version from GitHub fixed the issue for me.
Edit: If preferred one could also manually add back the "old" colours which were part of
category20b: