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

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:

(Hat tip: Matt Rosen.)

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