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In a twist on wordclouds, researchers at IBM have created a tool that can analyse and visualise not only which words in an address are used most often (larger) but also which are most unusual compared with previous inaugurals (bluer) and which words are conspicuously absent -that show up in other inaugurals but not this one (pink). This is Obama's inaugural:
Every other inaugural speech here.
Via Fallows.
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that's brilliant!
Posted by: ejoch | September 30, 2009 at 05:17 PM