These visualizations represent the frequency of the top 75 significant words from tonight’s State of the Union Address, as reported in the Washington Post. The visualization was prepared using the Wordle web service.
See the full text of the speech below.
Click the image or the following link for the full-sized original and more thought-provoking cartoons.
President Obama’s 1/25/2011 state of the union speech in three words, according to the recollections of NPR listeners:
These were the three most prominent words NPR listeners remembered, so the result is quite different than we’d get from an analysis of the text of the actual speech.
See the NPR article for variations according to the political orientation of listeners.
NPR: The State Of The Union, In Your Words
You can make your own word cloud from some text or a webpage using the same software as NPR: Wordle
See the full comic at New York Magazine, The Return of “Get Your War On”
via 3quarksdaily, The Triumphant Return of David Rees’ “Get Your War On”
