Let me just start by saying I don't discuss politics all that often as these discussions tend to end up in full-blown arguments (even amongst sixth graders!). With that said, I decided to ever-so-tepidly delve into the presidential hopefuls' acceptance speeches and wanted to see a visual representation of their words. I pulled transcripts from both of their speeches and the results are below. Remembering that wordles display words occurring most often in larger print, Obama focused on "change" and "promise" while McCain focused on the "country" and the word "fight." I obviously added the words Obama and McCain to the respective wordles! Just another way of presenting information, pretty cool, huh?
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
New Tek - Wordles
From Wordle.net, a wordle is defined as:"...a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."
What's that? You want an example, eh? I created this one for descriptors of a teacher. Enjoy!
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