Snowcloud: George Osborne's speech
Updated on 06 October 2009
Use our interactive Snowcloud to find out what was in Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's speech at a glance, and compare it with his opposite numbers in the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties.
Click the images below to generate a full-screen Snowcloud of George Osborne's speech to Conservative conference 2009.
Run the cursor over the words to see how often they appear.
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.
George Osborne's speech
Alistair Darling's speech
Compare George Osborne's party conference speech to Chancellor Alistair Darling's speech to Labour conference in Brighton.
Compare and contrast with Liberal Democrat spokesman Vince Cable's speech to his party conference in Bournemouth.
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 three letters, those listed here are ignored by the Snowcloud of George Osborne's speech (not all of the words in the list necessarily cropped up in the speech).