Posted on 06/21/2008 9:42:43 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
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Other people have put in other political speeches by Obama, Clinton, Bush, as well as passages from the Bible, the Constitution, other historical documents, and fiction (including John Galt's speech) and the results will show you what words were emphasized. You can then save your results into the gallery and link to them like I did above.
So Obama’s would be a very prominent “uh” ?
I recommend putting an Obama speech or two in, even the teleprompter specials. It’s amazing how little jumps out of them. He uses a lot of words but says very little.
I tried, but couldn’t get Java downloaded for some reason.
Take a look at my “1776” at the gallery...
Also, you can change the way the words appear (for example, to make most of them horizontal or vertical or to let them be more freeform) and you can regenerate the cloud so that it organizes different. For example, to produce the one I put at the top o the thread, I tried a few times until I got “human” and “life” to appear side-by-side like that. Playing with the fonts and colors can also change the impact.
Very cool little site there, I put in a few presidential election debates and EU treaties.
Cheers!
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