Sifting through the speeches
September 5th, 2008, 1:37 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Aaron
Now that the American public has heard from the candidates in their most formal setting yet, it is time to break down what they really said. Talk show hosts, journalists and pundits have already taken to the airwaves with their analysis, but one blog looked at the speeches by the numbers.
Graphicdesigner, used Wordle, a program that generates word clouds, to illustrate what words were the focus of each of the candidate’s speeches. The program selected the 150 most used words and arranged them according to the number of times they were used.
Here are the Prez. candidate speeches.
Here are the VP candidate speeches.
You can be the judge, but I think the candidate’s cloud of words tell a good story about what or who they stand for.
Aaron Aupperlee | city editor
