Word Cloud Analysis of Obamas Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincolns

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Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. (Several readers have told us that it wasn't Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were... more

Reviewed by Ceal Feb 01 2009, 07:36am ( 42 reviews ) • readwriteweb.com

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Rated by noidea831 on Mar 20 2009, 2:05am

I think Lincoln's speak for themselves.
Rated by muppetcakes on Mar 13 2009, 11:59pm

Speech clouds!
Rated by fabius on Feb 07 2009, 4:18pm

Inaugural Speech Cloud
Rated by missy20s on Feb 03 2009, 2:15pm

Absolutely fascinating!
Rated by bonbonnie on Feb 01 2009, 5:42pm

. Paratactic prose lends itself to leisurely and loving study, and that is what Obamas speech is already receiving. Penguin Books is getting out a keepsake edition of the speech, which will be presented along with writings by Abraham Lincoln and Ralph Waldo Emerson. (You can move back and forth among them, annotating similarities and differences.) One day after the occasion, USA Today offered as an analysis of the speech a list of the words most frequently used, words like America, common, generation, nation, people, today, world. This is exactly the right kind of analysis to perform, for it identifies the location of the speechs energy in the repetition of key words and the associations forged among them by virtue of that repetition. In the years to come what USA Today has begun will be expanded and elaborated in a thousand classrooms. Canonization has already arrived. Obama To the page for Bush, Clinton, Reagan, and Lincoln... .
Rated by fmedina on Feb 01 2009, 4:19pm

Word cloud analysis of Obama's inaugural speech. U like?

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