Snowcloud: Queen's speech 2008
Updated on 03 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, in which she sets out the government's legislative plans for the year.
Run the cursor over the words to see how often they appear, then click the word to see a video of her majesty using it in context during the speech.
Abour 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 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).
