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Obama: “Generate word clouds? Yes we can.”

We use these word clouds quite a lot at FreshMinds Research to visually represent qualitative information. They allow our clients to quickly digest what their customers say about them most often, and they brighten up presentations to boot. So after President Obama’s inauguration speech today we generated this  -

Unsurprisingly, ‘America’ and ‘nation’ figure prominently, as does ‘new’. Tellingly he only used the word ‘change’ twice, but ‘work’ ten times…

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6 Comments on “Obama: “Generate word clouds? Yes we can.””

  1. #1 Jake Griffiths (FreshMinds Research)
    on Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am

    After word clouds, this is my favourite inauguration related image: http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/profiles/jake00000

  2. #2 links for 2009-01-21 « Policy and Performance
    on Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:01 pm

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  3. #3 FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » Online communities are all about people (it’s our blogiversary)
    on Jan 26th, 2009 at 1:12 am

    [...] it would be interesting to reflect on what we’ve written, and after the proliferation of word-clouds for Obama’s Inauguration Speech, I thought I’d create the same for the FreshNetworks blog. Take a look below and see if you [...]

  4. #4 A trans-Atlantic lesson in eloquence « View from the Terraces
    on Feb 2nd, 2009 at 1:21 pm

    [...] in eloquence No, not Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, which has had more than enough media coverage. The unlikely source of America’s most recent lesson in eloquence is Ken Whisenhunt, coach of [...]

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    on Apr 23rd, 2010 at 4:32 am

    Hey, I think your really on track with this, I wouldn’t say I totally agree , but its not really that much of a issue.

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