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State of the State: The word is 'Texas'
Tue Jan 27 14:02:32 2009 CST
By Jennifer Peebles
Vince over at Capitol Annex has the complete text of Gov. Rick Perry's 2009 "State of the State" speech, and we couldn't resist running it through one of our favorite super-cool Web sites, Many Eyes, to generate some visualizations for it.

Below are a word tree from the text -- the root word is "Texas" -- and a word cloud, similar to a tag cloud you might see on someone's blog. Both of these are interactive, so take your mouse and hover over the text to explore it, and do some clicking, too. And remember, Many Eyes is interactive and free, so you can take the text and go in as many different directions as you like and even embed its visualizations in your own site.



And here's the word cloud:



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