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9/11 as Seen Through Wordle, Ngram, and Voyant

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For today’s post, I decided to take the same event and process through some of the various programs that have been brought up in discussion recently. Sticking with the theme of my PowerPoint from a few posts ago, I decided to continue my examination of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In particular, I decided to analyze this speech given by George W. Bush on the same day of the attacks. To begin, I created a “wordle” using the entirety of the speech with common American English words excluded, thus yielding the visualization seen below:

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