Visualizing Obama’s speech with Many Eyes

I confess. I only watched President Obama’s address to Congress with half my attention Tuesday night.

The rest went to updating spokesman.com plugging his speech into a website called Many Eyes, an IBM-owned tool that lets you upload data and create visualizations at no cost.

I posted this tag cloud to spokesman.com, but later at home I went back and played some more. This time, I created a word tree showing the context in which Obama used the pronoun “I”. Below you will see Obama’s promises and most personal of statements stand out in stark relief. Recognizing that these events are heavy on rhetoric and light on accountability, I look forward to rereading these in a few months.