Have you seen Wordle? This clever web site makes visual representations of words based on their frequency, given a block of text or a web site address.

Observe:

Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention, Denver, Colorado, August 2008.

As the political season heats up, take some time to see - through artfully designed word maps - what candidates are saying when they speak.

Content analysis, a field under which an application like this would fall, was at one time a favorite research area of mine, and one that I would love to talk to students about.

Crossposted at karakane.net