Snowcloud: Darling's 2009 budget
Updated on 22 April 2009
Alistair Darling's 2009 budget speech as interactive video word cloud. Click on a word and go straight to that moment in his speech.
1. Click the images below to generate a full-screen Snowcloud of Alistair Darling's budget speech.
2. Run the cursor over the words to see how often they appear.
3. Then click the word to see it in context in both a written transcript and a video of the full speech. You can also skip quickly between all its incidences in the speech.
David Cameron's response
About Snowclouds
Snowclouds are a Flash application designed by Channel 4 News's senior programme director, Martin Collett.
These interactive word clouds condense the text of a speech into one handy, interactive image. The more frequently a word is used during a speech, the bigger it is displayed. Clicking on the word brings up the transcript of the speech and shows the contexts in which the word was used.
The Snowcloud generator ignores common words such as "and", "the" and "there" to get a clearer picture of the distinct content of the speech.
As well as any word with fewer than four letters, those listed here are ignored by this Snowcloud (not all of the words in the list necessarily cropped up in the speech).
