Pipeline Gives Obama's State Of The Union The Word Cloud Treatment

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  Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
  
  Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
  
  Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

Our friends at Pipeline, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s drilling-focused website, have turned President Obama’s energy agenda into a word cloud.
The president devoted more than 700 words of last night’s State of the Union to energy issues. He talked about ending oil subsidies, expanding domestic oil production, improving energy efficiency, and, of course, ramping up natural gas drilling.
Here’s what the nine-paragraph section looks like in wordcloud form.
Want to to know what the entire speech would look like? Find out at our sister site, StateImpact New Hampshire.

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