Wordle of the world’s Oscar tweets

Here is a snapshot of what the world was tweeting in the wake of the Oscars ceremony last night. We created it using the text of 5,000 tweets tagged with #Oscar which we gathered from Twitter’s public timeline and fed into a program.

As you can see from this second image, the first time we did [...]

February 23, 2009 • Tags: , • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments

‘Sorry’ seems to be a rare-ish word - for a banker

This Wordle shows the breakdown of words used by some of the UK’s (former) most senior bankers when questioned by MPs about what why their companies are in such financial strife. ‘Bank’ (unsurprisingly), ‘board’ and ‘risk’ all feature heavily, with 132,142 and 149 mentions respectively. So too do ‘business’ (70) and ‘experience’ [...]

February 10, 2009 • Tags:  • Posted in: Uncategorized • No Comments
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