Take a look at some Historic American Rhetoric
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 7:40PM 
Hey just a quick note, finally finished the “Words of the Inaugural Address Gallery” for those of you who are unaware of what it’s all about here is a brief overview. To go to the gallery click here!
What is it? It’s a gallery of all 56 American presidential inaugural addresses, not only is there the full transcripts for each of the addresses there is a word cloud visualization to go along with each address. (There is also video footage where available; if it’s not there it will be soon)
What’s Word Cloud? A word cloud is a colourful arty way to look at speeches, or any type of text when you think about it. The word clouds displays frequently used word in a given text (excludes word of common usage e.g. the, a, at). The bigger the words in the word cloud the more frequently it appears in the text therefore it gives it more prominence in the image. To create the images in this gallery I used a cool little web application called Wordle.
Why should you take a look at the gallery? It gives you a new perspective of looking at some historic American rhetoric. To go to the gallery click here!
Reader Comments (25)
Well done, it looks great!!!
great resource. Thanks
Great resource - I sharing it with others. Thanks for the tweet!
Beautifully done. What a great idea. When someone suggested I do a complex Wordle covering a number of realated works, this elegant solution never even dawned on me. This is wonderful!
Appreciate all your hard work. Great resource.
Wow! What a great resource, You do such neat/useful things with wordles! Thanks for sharing!!
Really interesting!
excellent. really love this. check out my blog to see song lyrics in wordle www.whatdoesthatsongmean.blogspot.com
Nice work, looks great.
Have you seen this site? http://chir.ag/projects/preztags/ It takes a largely automated approach to analysing the tagged structure of the last couple hundred years of presidential speeches. Make sure you move the slider about the tag cloud to see the effect. And take some time to read how it was made... it's rather fascinating!
Chris
Hello
This is a really nice application of Wordle to enliven a potentially dry subject (sorry, not being American I would see presidential addresses as not exactly being among teenagers' favourite reading materials :-). I could also see how Wordle clouds could be used to introduce the potentially even drier topic of concordances and content analysis on research methods modules. Thanks for sharing this.
Best
Florence
Looks really great and wonderful... Good job!
__
ParaSlim
Wow, very hard worl guys, really nice to see that!!!
____________________________________
Wonderful post... Very informational and educational as usual!
I like this post very much. I will go to share this in my twitter page...
Business week MBA
Im not that much of a reader to be honest but your blogs pretty good, keep it up as I will bookmark ready for my next read
I definitely love your own posting style, very interesting. don’t give up and also keep posting as it just simply that is worth to read it,excited to looked over far more of your articles, have a good one
free lance writer
I like this post very much.thanks for sharing.
regards: Goldpreis Aktuell
Keep 'em coming... you all do such a great job at such Concepts... can't tell you how much I, for one appreciate all you do!
传奇私服
The resource is most excellent Helps in a great way Thanks casino en ligne francais
Social Care News: Response to Baby P 'has pushed foster care network to the brink'
Social News
Well done,great post...
The resource is most excellent Helps in a great way Thanks casino en ligne francaisiwc replica watches|
References allow you to track sources for this article, as well as articles that were written in response to this article.watches iwc|
It has previously been proven that a lot of highly successful people are in appreciate with recycled bags, and you may possibly have also seen Nicole Richie carry this kind of characteristic Balenciaga City Bag a lot of times previously. That mentioned, it isn't anymore fantastic to see her with this Balenciaga Perform Bag, nevertheless what is type of shocking is its truly enormous dimension.iwc watches