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UPDATE: i generated an updated version of this word cloud here

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"word cloud" comparing john mccain's (red) and barack obama's (blue) comments during the first presidential 2008 debate on 9/26 using wordle

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Diana Pappas says:

past and future
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

eMail Our Military (eMOM) says:

Love it!!!
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Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Andrew-Hyde says:

For me this reinforces who I support, without saying who, is that the same for everyone else?
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

cafemama says:

mccain knows, obama thinks. brilliant.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

thaumata says:

This is very interesting and cool. Thank you for sharing this!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

philopater_2000 says:

They both have "know" and "think" in their clouds, not sure why wordle emphasized "know" in McCain and "think" in Obama's...it's just random, don't make judgements based on it!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

templestark says:

... well it would seem you don't know what wordle is for then??. It emphasizes word Y based on frequency of use; high use, bigger text, not random. But yes, context removed entirely so judgments based on clouds not great.

Interestingly absent from Obama's cloud - change!
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

RobertFrancis says:

It'll be interesting to compare this with the next few debates as well.

@templestark good catch, along w/ McCain's "friends" both were expected way more then used.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

DmnJuice says:

Where is the word 'senator?' I see other titles in the cloud.

Or the candidate's names? I see other names in there, like Petraeus, why leave the candidates' names out of the cloud?

Makes me wonder what other words were left out.
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

@jessewright says:

@DmnJuice: you bring up a very good point.

i failed to mention that i removed some very commonly used terms from the transcript - like "senator" "jim" (the moderator) "mccain" and "obama" - since they were primarily used to address the other candidate during the debate. without removing them, one would have concluded that both candidates said the other candidate's name a whole lot, which is true, but not exactly what i was trying to represent :]
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

Slugicide says:

You shouldn't have removed the names. Barack addressed McCain several times, but McCain never addressed Obama. ( He never even looked at Barack directly.)
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

@jessewright says:

@Slugicide: to be fair - according to the transcript, mccain said obama's name 45 times, and obama said mccain's name 60 times
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

@jessewright says:

UPDATE: i generated an updated version of this word cloud here
Posted 16 months ago. ( permalink )

miss holmes says:

very interesting!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

michaeljpastor says:

have you ever been to ManyEyes? There are *multiple* ways to visualize this besides this kind of word cloud. Upload your data once and pick multiple visualizations
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

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