I took the text of Obama’s speech from the 2008 DNC and fed it through Wordle.net to generate a word cloud to visualize common words. It’ll be interesting to compare with McCain’s speech next week

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9 Responses to “obama’s dnc speech as a word cloud”

  1. Shannon says:

    Really cool D’Arcy! I would love to see a side by side comparison with McCain’s speech when he gives it.
    Even though Wordle puts words near each other randomly I love to see what serendipitously ends up near each other.
    Some phrases that put themselves together in my mind:
    “better new people”, “can change”, “America care”
    Anything else jump out at people?

  2. Karen says:

    \”promise\” can change\” \”America\”

    That\’s what jumped out at me.

    Very cool!

  3. ditto the \”cool\” comments …

  4. Ian says:

    I would love to see Wordle scale words as [frequency in sample]/[frequency in corpus], rather than just [frequency in sample] as now. I think a few hidden values would pop quite surprisingly out of Obama\’s speech if it could.

  5. Timothy West says:

    its pretty interesting but i geus promis is a strong word as you can never promise everything will come to pass… ??

    http://trcwest.com/blog/

  6. musing says:

    McCain Need Work Now! reminds me of the weird audio in the the old Gauntlet video game. “Valkyrie needs food badly.”

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