Word Clouds

Wordle.net provides a cool way to analyze the frequency at which words occurred in a text. See this page for word clouds of all the major speeches from the Democratic and Republican national conventions. I love this application of something that's been around since people could count. Now I can immediately see the main focus of a speech, once you get past the hyperbole and mean jabs.

Here's the Declaration of Independence and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech (word cloud shown).