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Aug
29
(2008)
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…
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?
\”promise\” can change\” \”America\”
That\’s what jumped out at me.
Very cool!
ditto the \”cool\” comments …
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.
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/
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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