Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Debate Words

Some stats on last night's debate:


Statistics of words spoken, arranged by speaker
SpeakerWord countUnique words
Holt2019570
Clinton59481320
Trump78991181

Top ten words by speaker, expanding contractions
ClintonTrump
countwordcountword
224the281I
216to272the
193and267and
160that238to
152we219is
151I214you
120of185that
114is184it
109a159a
108have156of

A word cloud for Clinton:


And a word cloud for Trump:

Finally, we have a word cloud for the words that were used more often by one candidate or another. Words spoken by Trump are red. Size is proportional to how much more the one candidate said it:

If we include the most common words, the resulting word cloud is not as charitable to one candidate: