Word cloud for Obama’s Trayvon Martin speech
President Obama made a surprise speech earlier today about race in America in the wake of the Zimmerman trial. Content aside, let’s take a look at the speech’s stats:
It had 2,145 words and “think” was the most popular word, appearing 21 times (or comprising less than 1 percent of the speech). African” and “American” appear second and third (15 and 14 times, respectively).
Roughly 45 percent of the speech was made up of primary, or non-common, words, which tracks with the presidential habit of using lots of indefinite articles in his spoken comments.
Here’s the word cloud of the speech:
african american better bit boys case community context country criminal department doesn enforcement excuse experience fact folks getting going ground happened history important issues laws levels local lot martin obviously people potential productive questions race racial reason situation state system talk things think thought training trayvon understand useful violence work
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Here’s the top-10 words frequency list (created at textfixer.com)
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