Okay, this is so cool it really deserves its own thread > > >

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

"Word Cloud" of the word frequencies in the text of Hillary's speech. (Posted in another thread by DUer 1corona4u.)

[quiet.american]

1. That is great. K&R

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

15. It's like the "New Deal Refrigerator Magnet Poetry" set. Very traditional.

[joshcryer]

2. That really sums up the speech perfectly. I would love to see Obama and Biden's speech done...

...this way.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. A wordcloud of McCain's speech will look like something scribbled on a serial killer's wall

WAR... DEFEAT EVIL... PRISONER... TORTURED... VICTORY

[NYC_SKP]

5. Wow, you left out POW.

Otherwise, excellent!

:rofl:

[rufus dog]

6. Good job to both of you

By the way, you forgot MY FRIENDS

[girl gone mad]

20. Obama will probably be the biggest word on McCain's...

just like the word cloud of McCain's website I saw recently.

[nam78_two]

24. LOL

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

4. LOVE IT! Amazing. k/r/nt

[1corona4u]

7. HEY...

I stole that from the enemy. :P Now you stole it from me, LOL...

Oh, and you can do it here--for future speeches.

http://wordle.net/

[NYC_SKP]

11. Damn....where did you get it?

I want to find out how it was made....share with my teacher friends as a possible school project for da kids.

thx

[1corona4u]

13. See link above.

[NYC_SKP]

14. Many thanks! nt

[TheDonkey]

8. Very cool

[NYC_SKP]

9. I can haz linky to 1corona4u's post, pleze?

I want to find out how he/she did that, it would be a cool project for students.

thx

[1corona4u]

12. I didn't do that particular one....

stole it from the enemy, but I posted a link above for wordle.

[Misskittycat]

10. We should word cloud all of the speeches.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

19. .

[ContinentalOp]

16. Here's one for Kucinich's speech

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/144215/Dennis_Kucinich_speech_at_the_Democratic_National_Convention

[1corona4u]

17. Saw that--saw Michelle's there too...

[helderheid]

25. My java is misfiring and I can't see it :(

[DeepModem Mom]

18. K&R!

[begin_within]

21. Where is "no?"

[Sentath]

22. Its a common word and gets removed

You have to set the language option not to remove common words, but then you end up with a wordle thats all articles.

OTOH if its a phrase used repeatedly in the speech, you can string the words together with ~'s

Try this text for the Kucinich speech, I like the results MUCH better than the one linked above.

It’s Election Day, 2008. We Democrats are giving America a wake up call. Wake up America. In
2001, the oil companies, the war contractors and the neo‐con artists seized the economy, and
have added four trillion dollars of unproductive spending to the national debt.
We now pay four times more for defense, three times more for gasoline and home heating oil,
and twice what we paid for health care. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, their homes,
their health care, their pensions. Trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid with borrowed
money. Tens of billions of dollars in cash and weapons disappeared into thin air, at the cost of
the lives of our troops and innocent Iraqis, while all the President’s oilmen are maneuvering to
grab Iraq’s oil.

Borrowed money to bomb bridges in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. No money to rebuild
bridges in America. Money to start a hot war with Iran. Now we have another cold war with
Russia while the American economy has become a game of Russian roulette.
If there was an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating this Administration
would take the gold. World records for violations of national and international laws. They want
another four year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children’s inheritance and
hollow out our economy. We can’t afford it America.

Wake~up~America, the insurance companies took over health care.
Wake~up~America, the pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing.
Wake~up~America, the speculators took over Wall Street.
Wake~up~America, they want to take your Social Security.
Wake~up~America, multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing,
good paying jobs lost.
Wake~up~America. We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more. War against Iran
will mean $10 a gallon gasoline. The Oil Administration wants to drill more ‐‐ into your wallet.
Wake~up~America. Weapons contractors want more. An Iran war will cost five to ten trillion
dollars.
This Administration can tap our phones. They can’t tap our creative spirit. They can open our
mail. They can’t open economic opportunities. They can track our every move. They lost track
of the economy while the cost of food, gasoline, and electricity skyrockets.
They skillfully played our post‐ 911 fears and allowed the few to profit at the expense of the
many. Everyday we get the color orange, while the oil companies, the insurance companies, the
speculators, the war contractors get the color green.
Wake up America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left.
This is call for you to go from down to up.
Up with the rights of workers.
Up with wages.
Up with fair trade.
Up with creating millions of good paying jobs rebuilding our bridges, ports and water systems.
Up with creating millions of sustainable energy jobs to lower the cost of energy, lower carbon
emissions and protect the environment.
Up with health care for all.
Up with education for all.
Up with home ownership.
Up with guaranteed retirement benefits.
Up with Peace.
Up with Prosperity.
Up with the Democratic Party
Up with Obama ‐ Biden
Wake~up~America.
Wake~up~America.
Wake~up~America.

http://wordle.net/create

[begin_within]

23. So, "No way, no how, no McCain!" becomes "Way, how, McCain!"

which actually has a more original ring to it.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

26. I think it discards articles, most prepositions and two letter words

[RichardRay]

27. Hell, this thing deserves its own forum!

I want to be able to feed a day's worth of DU posts through this thing.

Skinner - grab the code (the web site author makes it available, I think) and pass a month's worth of posts from April or May through this thing.

God, I love it when somebody uses code this well and this good.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

28. Be careful what you ask for...

A word cloud of a month of DU might be pretty alarming!

[RichardRay]

29. I can only imagine...

Yes, it could be pretty scary, especially for certain monthes!