Analysis of Presidential Speeches

Explore how history shaped words spoken by US presidents

Do you want to see how the culture of presidential speeches has changed? Which words are no longer used? Which historical events played significant role and shaped the way presidents speak to the nation? Prepare yourself for quite some Qliking.

This page analyzes more than 900 different presidential speeches from times of Washington to present. Text mining techniqes were used to gain information from unstructured data. The interactive graphs were created in Qlik which allows you to ask questions and get the answers within a few seconds.

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