An Experiment in Visualization: Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches from Truman through Obama and McCain.
In addition to the wordle.net visualizations in which the size of the word is proportionate to the number of times it is used, we’ve also included an audio recording and the full text for each speech. In order to encourage reader’s to look closely at each speech, you don’t see the name of the speaker until you decide to click on the word cloud to reveal it. Is that Reagan? Perhaps Clinton? it’s very interesting trying to parse the differences and what they mean. Although there are still problems with the way that Sophie’s comment streams are managed, we’ve enabled them here. Please if you leave comments for others, make them serious and not simply . . . .”testing” or “gee i wonder how this works.” You can download it here. But before you do, make sure you download and install the Sophie Reader.