It’s time for a little shameless self-promotion. My latest little project is on the history of presidential inaugurations. Good timing, too, since the next one will be sworn in on Jan. 20. It’s got everything you could want to know about each inauguration and swearing-in ceremony, word clouds of the speeches (and the speeches), photos, [...]

Every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words visualizes the Congressional Record for each Congressman, state, day, week, month, year, etc. A heat map shows which states’ lawmakers are talking the most, and lists shows which lawmakers are talking the most and least. In Missouri, I know that Sam Graves was the most chatty [...]

Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin debated at Washington University on Thursday night. CNN has the transcript of the debate. From the transcript, I separated what Biden said vs. what Palin said and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the word, [...]