Cool comparison. Is their also a comparison of Rick Warren’s into to past inaugural ‘prayers?’ I wonder if and how they change with successive presidents.

sorry…correction: Rick Warren INTRO not INTO

Great! Thanks for the work!

Extremely interesting. This is a powerful example of how looking at something another way can make things readily aparant. Thank you for this post, I will be forwarding it to everyone I know.

Matthew, Andre, thanks for the comments.

Dan, you could definitely build a comparison for the Rick Warren intro as well. The cool thing about ManyEyes is that anyone can upload a data set and visualize it. So, all you would have to do is find his transcript, load it to ManyEyes, and then select from the many visualization options they provide. Then you can go in and adjust your visualization to meet your needs. You can also use anyone else’s data set, which is what I did, since people had already uploaded past presidential addresses
(http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets?q=inauguration). That being said, I did a quick search – currently no data set for “Rick Warren.”

Here’s another cool visualization tool for presidential speeches, as reported on the Freakanomics blog:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/quantifying-the-presidents-speech/

The main site is: http://www.speechwars.com/index.php

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