Comments on: mccain’s rnc speech as a word cloud

By: Tensegrities » Blog Archive » Wordle clouds of Obama’s and McCain’s speeches

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:16:14 +0000

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

By: Jan Smith

Jan Smith — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:53:28 +0000

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

By: dnorman

dnorman — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:14:30 +0000

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.

By: davidicus

davidicus — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:48:36 +0000

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