SOTU Word cloud

[many a good man]

A word cloud is a visualization of word frequency in a given text as a weighted list. The technique has recently been popularly used to visualize the topical content of political speeches.

Here is the word cloud from last year's SOTU, the last by you know who:



After the speech tonight we can compare it Obama's first SOTU by using this free app: http://tagcrowd.com/

If you're still interested, you can got to this site to scroll through word clouds for 100 US Presidential speeches in chronological order to view how the use of words has changed over time in major American addresses:

http://chir.ag/projects/preztags/

[gateley]

1. Thanks - this'll be interesting. (I'm surprised "terror" isn't more prominent..) nt

[babylonsister]

2. Different prez. nt

[gateley]

3. Isn't that from Bush's SOTU? I'd better look at it again! nt

[babylonsister]

8. Seems like it, yes-my bad.

:hide:

[gateley]

9. Oooh, you're in for it now!

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

4. Political Bingo is fun.

http://www.politicalbingo.com

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. That was from two years ago, I believe.

[RoyGBiv]

6. That was interesting ...

Tracking the word "Constitution" throughout the years was quite revealing.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Haven't seen this app in a while . It is very cool. thanks.

[PufPuf23]

10. Is floratory a word?

Joking.
Hell I want to be surprised and energized and believe again.

[many a good man]

11. Here it is: Obama's first SOTU word cloud::