Here’s a tag cloud of Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address. Thanks to the New York times for the text and to Wordle for the tool.
Update: A lot of people are asking why the words “I” and “me” aren’t included. The reason is that Wordle probably thinks that the word is a “stop word” (a frequently-used, but unimportant word, such as “the”, “and” or “but”).
#1 by Rocky on January 28, 2010 - 12:56 am
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notice the lack of the words “Freedom” or “Liberty”
#2 by Rob Paris on January 28, 2010 - 12:59 am
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Yup. It’s all about jobs. Freedom and liberty don’t matter any more.
#3 by Cliff on January 28, 2010 - 1:23 am
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Tag cloud looks wrong. Missing is…
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#4 by robparis on January 28, 2010 - 1:27 am
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All simple words have been removed; otherwise it would be too crowded. There were 104 I’s compared to 170 We’s.
#5 by thatsright on January 28, 2010 - 1:58 am
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Uh…where’s the word “I”?
#6 by Jimmy on January 28, 2010 - 8:27 am
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I remember a certain past president who mentioned freedom quite a lot, but had quite a disdain for it. Talk of recovery aside, I’m assuming you two fools have some sort of way to measure the indescribable amount of freedom you have lost in the past year, right?
#7 by Brian on January 28, 2010 - 8:48 am
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Well said.
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#8 by Incompetano on January 28, 2010 - 11:24 am
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Tag is missing
I I I
Me Me Me
My My My
#9 by James Etheridge on January 28, 2010 - 1:31 pm
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Where is the word campaign. He must have mentioned his campaign from now two years ago about 20 times or so?
This seems to be a highly selective choice of tags!!
#10 by Rob on January 28, 2010 - 1:47 pm
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Obama used the word “campaign” twice and “campaigning” once. It didn’t reach the threshold to be included. There is no selection of tags; it includes the entire speech except for “stop words” which are frequently-used, but unimportant words, such as “the”, “and”, or “but”.
#11 by Adrienne on January 28, 2010 - 3:20 pm
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Hey – pretty cool Wordle. Did you just plug in the entire speech?
Thanks for visiting me today today
P,S. That picture of you jumping over the creek makes my blood curdle…
#12 by YFJ on January 28, 2010 - 4:01 pm
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Read the posts ding dongs. The I’s and me’s and we’s don’t make it to the Tag cloud.
#13 by Pepe on January 29, 2010 - 10:18 pm
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I may not be able to describe the freedoms I’ve lost in the last year, but the writing is on the wall for the future if we stay on Obama’s path.
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