diff --git a/docs/requirements.txt b/docs/requirements.txt
index 94b716c1a..9783a3079 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/requirements.txt
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ portalocker>=2.7.0
 semantic_version>=2.10.0
 Sphinx>=5.2.2
 sphinx_rtd_theme>=1.0.0
+wordcloud>=1.9.2
diff --git a/hed/tools/visualizations/tag_summary_word_cloud.py b/hed/tools/visualizations/tag_summary_word_cloud.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a3949206e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hed/tools/visualizations/tag_summary_word_cloud.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+from wordcloud import WordCloud
+
+
+def create_wordcloud(word_dict, width=400, height=200):
+    """Takes a word dict and returns a generated word cloud object
+
+    Parameters:
+        word_dict(dict): words and their frequencies
+        width(int): width in pixels
+        height(int): height in pixels
+    Returns:
+        word_cloud(WordCloud): The generated cloud.
+                               Use .to_file to save it out as an image.
+
+    :raises ValueError:
+        An empty dictionary was passed
+    """
+    wc = WordCloud(background_color='white', width=width, height=height)
+
+    wc.generate_from_frequencies(word_dict)
+
+    return wc
+
+
+def convert_summary_to_word_dict(summary_json):
+    """Converts a HedTagSummary json dict into the word cloud input format
+
+    Parameters:
+        summary_json(dict): The summary from a summarize hed tags op
+
+    Returns:
+        word_dict(dict): a dict of the words and their occurrence count
+        
+    :raises KeyError:
+        A malformed dictionary was passed
+    """
+    tag_dict = summary_json['Dataset']['Overall summary']['Main tags']
+    word_dict = {}
+    for tag_sub_list in tag_dict.values():
+        for tag_sub_dict in tag_sub_list:
+            word_dict[tag_sub_dict['tag']] = tag_sub_dict['events']
+
+    return word_dict
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 443e763d2..7dd623faa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ openpyxl>=3.1.0
 pandas>=1.3.5
 portalocker>=2.7.0
 semantic_version>=2.10.0
+wordcloud>=1.9.2
diff --git a/tests/tools/visualizations/test_tag_summary_word_cloud.py b/tests/tools/visualizations/test_tag_summary_word_cloud.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b1d5c4853
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tools/visualizations/test_tag_summary_word_cloud.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import unittest
+from wordcloud import WordCloud
+from hed.tools.visualizations import tag_summary_word_cloud
+
+class TestWordCloudFunctions(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_convert_summary_to_word_dict(self):
+        # Assume we have a valid summary_json
+        summary_json = {
+            'Dataset': {
+                'Overall summary': {
+                    'Main tags': {
+                        'tag_category_1': [
+                            {'tag': 'tag1', 'events': 5},
+                            {'tag': 'tag2', 'events': 3}
+                        ],
+                        'tag_category_2': [
+                            {'tag': 'tag3', 'events': 7}
+                        ]
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        expected_output = {'tag1': 5, 'tag2': 3, 'tag3': 7}
+
+        word_dict = tag_summary_word_cloud.convert_summary_to_word_dict(summary_json)
+        self.assertEqual(word_dict, expected_output)
+
+    def test_create_wordcloud(self):
+        word_dict = {'tag1': 5, 'tag2': 3, 'tag3': 7}
+        width = 400
+        height = 200
+        wc = tag_summary_word_cloud.create_wordcloud(word_dict, width, height)
+
+        self.assertIsInstance(wc, WordCloud)
+        self.assertEqual(wc.width, width)
+        self.assertEqual(wc.height, height)
+
+    def test_create_wordcloud_with_empty_dict(self):
+        # Test creation of word cloud with an empty dictionary
+        word_dict = {}
+        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
+            tag_summary_word_cloud.create_wordcloud(word_dict)
+
+    def test_create_wordcloud_with_single_word(self):
+        # Test creation of word cloud with a single word
+        word_dict = {'single_word': 1}
+        wc = tag_summary_word_cloud.create_wordcloud(word_dict)
+        self.assertIsInstance(wc, WordCloud)
+        # Check that the single word is in the word cloud
+        self.assertIn('single_word', wc.words_)
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