Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Obama's State of The Union Address Word Cloud

This is the word cloud of Obama's State of the Union Address.

Picture embedded below.



Created with http://www.wordle.net.
Speech text from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/01/obama-state-of-the-union-speech-text.html.

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Posted by Andrew Berman at 1/27/2010 09:40:00 PM
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12 comments:

  1. I and me appear to be missing.
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  2. Common words are excluded automatically (http://www.wordle.net/faq#stop).
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  3. Besides if the added "I" the screen would be white
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  4. But "I" and "me" are not common in SOTUs. Except this one.
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  5. Is it possible to trick the program by substituting (say) 'eye' and 'mee?'
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  6. Doing a "Find/Replace" for "I" and "Me" in Obama's SOTU 2010:
    "I" = 96
    "Me" = 8

    Republican Response:
    "I" = 6
    "Me = 2

    Bush SOTU 2008:
    "I" = 38
    "me = 2
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  7. Namazu said: "Is it possible to trick the program by substituting (say) 'eye' and 'mee'?

    Yes, it is. Just replace ' I ' with ' eye ' and ' me ' with ' mee ' - single spaces on either side of the words.
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  8. here's a version where "i " is replaced with "hedgehog ":
    http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1591751/state_of_the_union_2010
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  9. The result would have been even more effective if you had used "Suckers!" instead of "hedgehog" ...
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  10. MediaCurves.com just conducted a study with 1050 viewers of President Obama’s State of the Union address. Results found that favorability for the President’s plans for health care, the economy, and foreign policy increased among all political parties after viewing President Obama’s State of the Union Address. In addition, the percentage of respondents who indicated that they would vote for Barack Obama if he ran for a second term increased among all parties. More in-depth results can be seen at:
    http://www.mediacurves.com/Politics/J7719-ObamaStateofUnionPost/
    Thanks,
    Ben
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  11. @Murgatroyd - hedgehog was the first word that popped into my head when trying to think of one with a significant chance of not already existing in the text
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  12. The result would have been even more effective if you had used "Suckers!" instead of "hedgehog" ...

    I did it, and also went back in time and did it for a random selection of SOTUs all the way back into the 1800s.

    It's interesting. "Suckers" seems to predominate a lot more from Woodrow Wilson onward. "Imperial Presidency", indeed.

    Still working on it. It's given me an interesting idea...
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