Snowcloud: Cameron on spending
Updated on 18 November 2008
Conservative leader David Cameron drops a pledge to match Labour's spending plans - his speech as an interactive word cloud.
Click the image below to generate a full-screen Snowcloud of the speech David Cameron made today.
Run the cursor over the words to see where they appear, and how often.
Then click the word to find out how many times Cameron used it during the speech, and in what context. 
About Snowclouds
Snowclouds are a Flash application designed by Channel 4 News' 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 only one or two letters, those listed here are ignored by this Snowcloud (not all of the words in the list necessarily cropped up in Cameron's speech).
