Wordle applied to candidate speeches

davequick's picture

Wordle.net is a site capable of producing images that include the relative # of times a word comes up in a chunk of text (often referred to as word clouds) to help you visualize the chunk of text it just analyzed.  The bigger the word the more often it was used.  I just ran the acceptance speech for each presidential and vice-presidential candidate through it for amusement.

Obama McCain
   
Biden Palin

I find it interesting that the themes (as I see them) for the presidential acceptances were "Promise / Change / America can" for Obama and "Country / Fight / Fought" for McCain.

Just thought it was a neat visualization technology.