WORD CLOUDS.

For another way of understanding the previous post, here are the word clouds for three of the main speeches. The way this works is it analyzes text to show the frequency of certain terms. Warner's keynote, Bill Clinton's address, Kerry's attack, and Biden's speech. None of these were bad speeches. Even Warner's was competently constructed and delivered. But they're also not coherent speeches: They don't fit together.Warner:Clinton:Kerry:Biden:Thanks to Georgia10 for the idea.Update: Looking at the clouds, Warner's speech actually looks a lot like Kerry's. Yet it couldn't have come across more differently. This is really making me doubt the rigor and universal applicability of word clouds as an analytical device.Update to the Update: I'd just copied the Kerry cloud twice. Fixed. The reputation of word clouds as an analytical device is restored.