An interactive tagcloud of the words that US presidents used frequently in their speeches, showing which issues they deemed important over time. the dataset consists of over 360 documents, from speeches, official documents, declarations, & letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2006 AD. a timeline slider allows users to animate the tagcloud over the years.
see also parsing the state of the union & power of words & state of the union visualization.
[links: chir.ag|via boingboing.net & datapacifica.blogspot.com|thnkx Mart!n]
Originally posted on information aesthetics by Rhizome
