Posts tagged "Word Clouds"

I stumbled upon Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s announcement speech from his 1998 race for lieutenant governor, arguably my former state’s most powerful political job. Back then, his candidacy centered on “safe... Read more →

Stephen Colbert this week used word clouds — visual representations of word frequencies in selected blocks of text — to tell a story about his political action committee. Colbert recently... Read more →

A word cloud visualizing President Obama’s speech tonight:  Read more →

I joined Facebook nearly five years ago, and I’ve since posted more than 1,700 items to my wall, a figure I obtained by downloading my profile history. I wondered what... Read more →

A word cloud President Obama’s remarks last night on the death of Osama bin Laden:  Read more →

President Obama announced by email this morning that his reelection effort is starting. Here’s how that message looks as a word cloud: Read more →

Yes. The State of the Union address, which is like the Oscars or Super Bowl for politics nerds like me, is tonight. Here’s a look back at President Obama’s speech... Read more →

I’m getting bored with word clouds, but I couldn’t think of a better way to make a visualization in honor of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. Here is his... Read more →

A friend and colleague contributed today’s visualization, a word cloud of the 1861 Texas Ordinance of Secession:  Source: Wordle Read more →