hans.gerwitz

I was recently reminded of Brad Borevitz’s excellent State of the Union text analysis project. This year, he’s added a tool that lets us graph the frequency of words against each other. Here’s an inter­esting example, over time the use of the word “freedom” has risen dramat­i­cally, while “liberty” has remained fairly steady.

Maybe this is an indi­cation that politi­cians prefer to use language that’s more open to different inter­pre­ta­tions. Maybe it’s just linguistic fashion. Now I want a similar tool that visu­alizes word use in major newspapers.