Comments on: Obama’s inaugural Wordle

By: Wikinomics – Analyzing the State of the Union: Speeches as data points

Wikinomics – Analyzing the State of the Union: Speeches as data points — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:29 +0000

[...] can now automate this process). Last January I highlighted Wordle and used tag clouds to create a visualization of State of the Union addresses from notable past Presidents. This year, I’ve been spending a [...]

By: What are they saying in Congress? « Alex Marshall’s Blog

What are they saying in Congress? « Alex Marshall’s Blog — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:03:45 +0000

[...] Wordles can be a great way to visualize political discourse, especially when you use them in comparative form. After Inauguration Day in January, Naumi wrote an excellent post , using IBM’s ManyEyes analysis to compare Obama’s inaugural speech to those of his predec…. [...]

By: Wikinomics» Blog Archive » What are they saying in Congress?

Wikinomics» Blog Archive » What are they saying in Congress? — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:17:32 +0000

[...] Wordles can be a great way to visualize political discourse, especially when you use them in comparative form.� After Inauguration Day in January, Naumi wrote an excellent post , using IBM’s ManyEyes analysis to compare Obama’s inaugural speech to those of his predec…. [...]

By: Naumi Haque

Naumi Haque — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:08:11 +0000

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

By: Naumi Haque

Naumi Haque — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:16:44 +0000

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.”

By: Matthew Dreitlein

Matthew Dreitlein — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:59:49 +0000

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.

By: André Luce

André Luce — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:48:53 +0000

Great! Thanks for the work!

By: DanR

DanR — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:11:32 +0000

sorry…correction: Rick Warren INTRO not INTO

By: DanR

DanR — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:10:55 +0000

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.