Snowcloud: Brown at congress
Updated on 04 March 2009
The prime minister's speech to congress as an interactive word cloud: the bigger the word, the more times it was used.
Click the image below to generate a full-screen Snowcloud of the speech Gordon Brown made to congress on his first visit to meet President Barack Obama.
Run the cursor over the words to see how often they appear.
Then click the word to see it in the context of the full speech text, and to skip quickly between all its incidences in the speech.
About Snowclouds
Snowclouds are a Flash application designed by Channel 4 News's senior programme director, Martin Collett.
These interactive word clouds condense the text of a speech into one handy, interactive image. The more frequently a word is used during a speech, the bigger it is displayed. Clicking on the word brings up the transcript of the speech and shows the contexts in which the word was used.
The Snowcloud generator ignores common words such as "and", "the" and "there" to get a clearer picture of the distinct content of the speech.
As well as any word with only one or two letters, those listed here are ignored by this Snowcloud (not all of the words in the list necessarily cropped up in Brown's speech today).
