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

1. Shannon on August 29th, 2008 10:17 am

   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 on August 29th, 2008 3:39 pm

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

   That\’s what jumped out at me.

   Very cool!

3. Jennifer Maddrell on August 30th, 2008 5:54 pm

   ditto the \”cool\” comments …

4. Ian on August 31st, 2008 4:30 pm

   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 on September 1st, 2008 3:08 pm

   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 on September 2nd, 2008 9:11 pm

   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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