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*** UPDATED x1 *** State of the state word cloud
Thursday, Feb 2, 2012 - Posted by Rich Miller * Via the Daily Herald. Click the pic for a larger image…  More SOTS coverage in a bit. There are a ton of stories to go through, so chew on this one for a while. *** UPDATE *** Something about that word cloud looked a bit off to me. The governor’s office thought the same thing. Turns out, the reason why words like “Quinn” and “Pat” appear so prominently is that the DH likely pasted the pdf version into the program, which would have those words on every page. So, here’s the text-only version. Click the pic for a larger size.. 
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- 32nd Ward Roscoe Village - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:23 am:
Why so rosy, Governor Quinn? We should be concentrating on the $35 billion problem instead of tangents like this one: http://chicago.grubstreet.com/2012/02/you_can_have_my_shark_fin_when.html
- Soccertease - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:24 am:
Sometimes presidents and governors need to give pep talks with a lot of buzz words that make people feel good. Obama’s good at it-Quinn isn’t.
- OneMan - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:44 am:
It is interesting that it looks like he referenced his own name more than the word jobs.
- wordslinger - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:51 am:
I missed the memo on word clouds. They’re everywhere now. They’re the new “synergy” or “thinking outside of the box.”
- Elijiah Snow - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 9:54 am:
I’m not altogether familiar with how the word cloud works, I can never get it to work for me, but it’s generated by content, right? So there is theoretically more than one cloud for a speech, right?
Did the Herald cherry pick the one that had “new” and “tax” together? I call shennanigans.
- And I Approved This Message - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 10:15 am:
I don’t see soy, Land of Lincoln, or Mississippi River. He must have been off his game.
- Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 11:12 am:
Also, no “carp” and no “white sox”
- Shock & Awww(e) - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 11:20 am:
Yes! Triple word score! diagonal, near the center, running top-to-bottom: “moving thank tax”
What do I win?
Wait… it doesn’t work like that? Shoot.
- shore - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 12:00 pm:
That’s a great chart-let’s play a better game and note the words NOT seen which frankly tell the REAL story of the blago/quinn/simon/madigan era:
success, growing, thriving, improving, improve, better, leading, blagojevich, creating, adding, rising, expanding, olympics, number 1, top, winning, rising, raising, global, won, praised, pleased, proud, achievements, suburbs, innovation, responsibility, cleaned up, ethics, reformed.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Feb 2, 12 @ 3:35 pm:
I like the first one “education Quinn must also Jobs Pat!”