Comments on: State of the Union(s) http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/state-of-the-unions Jer Thorp | There is an art to evolution... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mac http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/state-of-the-unions/comment-page-1#comment-1549 Mac Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:42:22 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=1015#comment-1549 Nice Work! Can you tell us a little more about how you performed your word weighting/Score calculations? Nice Work! Can you tell us a little more about how you performed your word weighting/Score calculations?

]]> By: Jim http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/state-of-the-unions/comment-page-1#comment-1546 Jim Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:55:12 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=1015#comment-1546 Jer, When you're poking around to find interesting patterns in data, as you did with this project, are you doing so in Processing and writing scripts from scratch? Or are there other tools that you work with (spreadsheets, pre-made scripts, etc.) to play and experiment before settling on an approach that you take all the way to a finished product? Jer,

When you're poking around to find interesting patterns in data, as you did with this project, are you doing so in Processing and writing scripts from scratch? Or are there other tools that you work with (spreadsheets, pre-made scripts, etc.) to play and experiment before settling on an approach that you take all the way to a finished product?

]]> By: Noel http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/state-of-the-unions/comment-page-1#comment-1529 Noel Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:53:17 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=1015#comment-1529 Beautiful visualization, I really love the way the tentacles float off into space and fold over themselves. That effect is completely lost in the cropping on the Time's site. Looking at the results, it would have also been interesting to also see words that trended in only particular countries. It's not surprising that words like "government", "people" and "country" were popular amongst many of the speeches. Beautiful visualization, I really love the way the tentacles float off into space and fold over themselves. That effect is completely lost in the cropping on the Time's site.

Looking at the results, it would have also been interesting to also see words that trended in only particular countries. It's not surprising that words like "government", "people" and "country" were popular amongst many of the speeches.

]]> By: Rob http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/state-of-the-unions/comment-page-1#comment-1527 Rob Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:42:59 +0000 http://blog.blprnt.com/?p=1015#comment-1527 Here's a tag cloud of Obama's 2010 State of the Union Address: <a href="http://robvstate.com/2010/01/27/tag-cloud-of-obamas-2010-state-of-the-union-address/" target="_blank">http://robvstate.com/2010/01/27/tag-cloud-of-obam...</a> Here's a tag cloud of Obama's 2010 State of the Union Address:
http://robvstate.com/2010/01/27/tag-cloud-of-obam...

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