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mccain’s rnc speech as a word cloud

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I just ran John McCain’s speech from the final day of the RNC 2008 convention through Wordle to generate a word cloud to see major themes.

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4 Responses to “mccain’s rnc speech as a word cloud”

  1. davidicus on September 5th, 2008 4:48 pm

    these are quite awesome–nice work. btw, Fight with a capital is a different word?

  2. dnorman on September 5th, 2008 5:14 pm

    hey - good catch! I didn’t realize Wordle was case sensitive. I guess the side effect of that, is that you can tell roughly how often he started a sentence with Fight… rather than just using it in a sentence.

  3. Jan Smith on September 6th, 2008 12:53 pm

    Interesting to see the difference in frequency of use of the opposing candidate’s name between the two: McCain said “Obama” less frequently…hmmm.

  4. Tensegrities » Blog Archive » Wordle clouds of Obama’s and McCain’s speeches on September 7th, 2008 8:16 pm

    [...] Thanks to D’Arcy Norman for making wordle clouds of both Sen. Obama’s DNC acceptance speech, and Sen. McCain’s RNC acceptance speech. [...]

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