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What did Gov. Sarah Palin actually say in convention speech?

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Robb Montgomery
on September 4, 2008
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Well, let’s look at the tagcrowd analysis of her speech content. She delivered the address at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Minn.

This tagcrowd data comes in from reader Riff Viana who also promises a Wordle version soon. We’ll post result too as an update as soon as we get it.

Wordle version has been added below

I love it when readers play with the tools I am using.

I asked Riff if they liked tagcrowd, “I thought it was pretty cool. Could be more interesting with more visualization styles.”
I agree Wordle looks cooler but tagcrowd is more accurate.

created at TagCrowd.com

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Visual analysis of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech

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Robb Montgomery
on August 29, 2008
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I produced this visual analysis of Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention using Tagcrowd.

Tagcrowd is a free Web site that allows you to provide a useful analysis and filtering out of common words.
This tool allows us see how many times a word is mentioned so that we can learn, at a glance, the content theme of a Web site or document.

To get this result, I used the on-screen controls that let me specify how many top words to show as well as set a minimum threshold for them to appear. After some trial and error I setteld on the top 50 words that had been mentioned at least four times in his speech.
I also applied what Tagcrowd calls a “Stop list” to filter out common words out of the image.

These are the words that were on my stoplist for this analysis: eight, once, seen, talk

It is not a perfect tool, but I think it can produce reports of value. As an adjunct to other analysis and reaction reporting techniques.

To see what Wordle.net can produce from the same materials, check out 10,000 words blog to see how Mark has assembled graphics from more of the speeches from the convention. President Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and Michelle Obama.

And this is a wordle graphic produced from the transcript of Barack Obama’s 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Wordle graphic of Senator Barack Obama\'s 2004 DNC speech

To compare and contrast, below is the analysis of the same transcript using tagcrowd.

created at TagCrowd.com

Next week, we’ll post graphics from Senator John McCain’s speeches.

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