Visualizing the State of the State Address

• Joe Wertz
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  Joe Wertz was a reporter and managing editor for StateImpact Oklahoma from 2011-2019. He reported on energy and environment issues for national NPR audiences and other national outlets. He previously worked as a managing editor, assistant editor and staff reporter at several major Oklahoma newspapers and studied journalism at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Here’s a different take on Monday’s State of the State address by Gov. Mary Fallin.

The 50 most-frequent words in her prepared remarks are shown above. The bigger the word, the more it was used.

Hit the jump to compare the 2012 address to last year’s.

These compare the text of Fallin’s speeches from 2011 and 2012 — as prepared — and don’t reflect an actual transcript of either address.

We cleaned up the text a bit to remove words like ‘state,’ ‘year,’ ‘Oklahoma’ and ‘Oklahomans.’

Any differences jump out at you?