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Another remix of speeches
Although this is not, strictly speaking, government information, it is about the presidential race and is an interesting complement to US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud (more on that here: remix: US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud). This is another good demonstration of how interesting things can be done with information that is easily re-usable.
- Tag Clouds for the Democratic Debate, Pollster.com, April 27, 2007
More State of the Union Mashups
As we reported the other day (Remixes, Mashups in the news) there are several sites that have online tools for visualizing word use in the State of the Union speeches. Here are two more, one by Jason Giffey who is a librarian at University of Tennessee - Chattanooga.
- State of the Union Project by Brad Borevitz at onetwothree.net
- Tag Cloud for 2007 State of the Union, by Jason Griffey, Pattern Recognition (January 24th, 2007)
Tag Clouds applied to GPO/FDLP
Building on James R's post, I ran two major GPO/Council documents through Tag Crowd:
- “Knowledge Will Forever Governâ€: A VISION STATEMENT FOR FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY - Published by the Depository Library Council
- A Strategic Vision for the 21st Century - published by GPO management.
Roll your own tag clouds
Building on Jim's post on tag clouds, this certainly is a great way to analyze a document. And here's a tool that could allow us to, as Daniel points out in his comment, analyze the zeitgeist of an entire administration. Check out TagCrowd. Paste in some text (or upload a text file of up to 100KB), press a button, and you can instantly visualize word frequency! I tried it with the transcript for President Bush's remarks at the signing of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (aka the US torture bill or the death of Habeas Corpus) and here's the tag cloud I got. Interestingly, the most common tags wrote the following sentence: "American attacks bill; CIA commissions intelligence military program questioning terrorists war." (punctuation added!)
remix: US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud by Chirag Mehta, 2 Nov. 2006. An interesting remix of public documents! Mehta got more than 360 speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2006 and created a "tag cloud" much like you see on del.icio.us (and like our own del.icio.us tag cloud in the left-hand side-bar of this page). On Mehta's site, larger font size indicates more use of the word and different colors indicate newer and older use. There is a slider-control at the top of the page that allows you to view the clouds for each document. As we often mention, such re-use of public information should be an explicit goal of government information policy. Interestingly, Mehta got the documents from Encyclopedia Britannica and ThisNation.com, not from government sources directly. Continue reading
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