Comments on: "Capitol Words" Displays Most-Used Word From Daily Congressional Record

By: Lynne

Lynne — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:19:18 +0000

Pretty cool and very similar to a TV news experiment we did here on the frequency of words used on two TV programs during the week of the Republican Convention (O'Reilly Factor vs. The Daily Show). It's a pretty cool visualization of the most frequently used words on those particular shows during that week.

You can read the blog post here:
http://enterpriseblog.snapstream.com/2008/09/visualizing-television-ne ws-experiment/

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:47:37 +0000

@Anthony: Actually, America is a continent. USA is a country

By: prophet

prophet — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:02:27 +0000

Check out http://wordle.net/. It counts every word used in a document and creates an image.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:24:59 +0000

America is a country.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:24:36 +0000

Secrity -> Security
... too much caffeine

By: anon

anon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:24:12 +0000

You can't see 2000-2001 because [Redacted by Homeland Secrity]

By: sise

sise — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:37:09 +0000

Caribbean! Looks like I'm not the only one planning my next vacation

By: sirwebster

sirwebster — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:26:30 +0000

I see on June 13th they were planning their summer vacation

By: Polx

Polx — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:51:42 +0000

I'd like to see Capitol Rude Words Displays Most-Used Words said ABOUT Congress.

And I can start that list in five letters, beginning with C.

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:35:12 +0000

You have to go back to May 15 before Iraq appears. Caribbean appears before Iraq. Energy and oil are the topics of interest and show up many times. It's an interesting website. Plus, it'll make it easier for Jon Stewert to compile his videos of politicians saying the same word continually. Plus, if they ever say "raise" as in pay raise when they don't mention Iraq as a main topic for months ... then it might be time to have a conversation with your government officials. (I say your because I am Canadian). It might be interesting to compile the Canadian word (and other countries) to see what they are talking about too.

By: j

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:24:12 +0000

Someone already has: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/27766/Capitol_Words_2008

By: xadrian

xadrian — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:11:21 +0000

A word cloud would be better suited for something like this. Someone dump some transcripts into Wordle.net