Snowcloud: Queen's speech 2007
Updated on 02 December 2008
The Queen's speech at the opening of parliament as an interactive word cloud: the bigger the word, the more times it was used.
About Snowclouds
Click the image below to generate a full-screen Snowcloud of the Queen's speech last year - the first of Gordon Brown's premiership.
Run the cursor over the words to see where they appear, and how often.
Then click the word to find out how many times her majesty used it during the speech, and in what context. 
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 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 the Queen's speech).
