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Words

Via the excellent and learned FiveThirtyEight.com, here is a sumptuous piece of visual communication from the Boston Globe:

McCain blog word frequency visualisation, from the Boston Globe

The letterpress style visuals are lovely. It visually depicts the frequency of words on McCain’s and Obama’s respective blogs.

Little wonder that stories about McCain are more easily pushed aside; McCain’s own stories are mostly about Obama.

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  1. Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » Seen Sign Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 10:29 am

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