Category Archives: Fun with Wordle

Below you will find a word picture of the farewell addresses of President Bush and President Clinton. Similarities? Differences? The biggest difference I noticed is the prominence of words such as prosperity and economy in the Clinton address although I cannot imagine why they are missing from the Bush address… George W. Bush Farewell Address Bill Clinton Farewell Address

Recently, a colleague of mine introduced me to a fantastic website known as Wordle. Since that introduction, I have been wasting large amounts of time playing around with the site. What is wordle? Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. Being the huge history & politics nerd that I am, I decided to use the site to conduct an experiment. What would … Continue reading →