First Debate Wordled: McCain
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I’ve already made a wordle text cloud of Obama’s portion of last Friday’s debate. As promised, here’s McCains:
If you’re interested in having a look at the text used you can find it here.
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First Debate Wordled: Obama
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I’ve written about wordle before, and I am still completely blown away by how useful it is at conveying information without completely removing the context. I feel that this sort of word count analysis has been especially useful in the current political setting. The New York Times used this method recently to compare the Democrats and Republicans during their conventions this year.
Below is a wordle I created using Obama’s portions of transcript of the first presidential debate. Before simply copying and pasting the transcript into the wordle creator I parsed the text myself in order to remove words and phrases that would simply clutter and overshadow the key issues mentioned during the debate – from over 4000 words to about 1500. You can find the text file here.
I’ll post McCain’s portion of the debate soon.
UPDATE: I’ve posted it here.