an interactive tagcloud of the words that US presidents used frequently in their speeches, showing which issues they deemed important over time. the dataset consists of over 360 documents, from speeches, official documents, declarations, & letters written by the Presidents of the US between AD. a timeline slider allows users to animate the tagcloud over the years.

see also parsing the state of the union & power of words & state of the union visualization.

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