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Day 13 - Word Counting

I recently created a word counter. My ultimate goal is to somehow visualize the frequency of words in books/speeches, but right now it’s a work in progress. You can play around with it here: Word Counter.

Here are the top 5 words (with common words ignored) from the last four State of the Unions:

2008
1. people
2. america
3. must
4. these
5. new

2007
1. america
2. health
3. help
4. people
5. new

2006
1. america
2. world
3. people
4. american
5. country

2005
1. security
2. social
3. freedom
4. people
5. country

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Comments:

  • Very clever. Nice work!

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