Human Peace, War World: Obama’s Nobel Speech As A Word Cloud

by Rachel Sklar | 3:46 pm, December 11th, 2009

You can hear a speech, you can read a speech, or you can look at a speech as a word cloud. That last one is less about delivery and soaring oratory as it is about the raw data of what was said, and how it breaks down, dispassionately. Here, courtesy of an anonymous person on Twitter in South Louisiana, is Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:

@rahblah: I put transcript (http://bit.ly/86rvr7) of Obama Peace Prize speech in TagCrowd. Word with greatest frequency (44) is “War.”

Glynnis noted this yesterday. But this is still a fascinating way to look at the speech.

Here’s the cloud:

Obamaspeechwordcloud

(Hat tip: Matt Rosen.)

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2 comments

disgusted says:

December 12, 2009 at 9:51 am

ANOTHER distraction!
If you can not “facetiae” them with the FACTS -
Dazzle them with the BS!

.?.?.? What ELSE is “new!”

Maggie Denson says:

December 12, 2009 at 5:28 pm

Whoever wrote that speech knew exactly what to say, but failed to tell the president HOW to say it. He had NO expression about any of the things he said. To me, that means, he just read the words that were on his teleprompters, not even knowing what they meant. I just say he does read well though, with the help of the teleprompters. Couldn’t do it without them. Can the man EVER say something he MEANS? He never tells the things he has done that he promised he would. WELL, I suppose the reason for that is he hasn’t done a single thing he promised to do. All he can do is tell us what he can do in the future, then never does it.

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