Blagojevich on Maddow Wordle
Rachel Maddow just did an excellent job interviewing Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Here’s the Wordle:
Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the image. Don’t know what this says, but here it is. And this is the transcript. I edited out the MADDOW: and BLAGOJEVICH: parts, also the introductory definitions of the participants.
A real semantic network analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech
I’ve been watching inaugural events all day, and noted the numerous Wordle examinations of the inaugural. Here’s an example of a true semantic network analysis of the inaugural via leximancer, a semantic network analysis software that doesn’t look as cool or as pretty as Wordle, but provides a more quantitative analysis. Leximancer weights the concepts based on their association with various words and provides a map of how the concepts are related (brighter circles equal greater emphasis, for instance).
Some short explanation: the circles represent concepts, the lines represent associations between concepts. The only reason I know about this is because of my dissertation.
Thoughts? Comments?
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