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Tuesday, February 24, 2009  



Capitol Words - Word Frequency From the Congressional Record
http://www.capitolwords.org/

For every day Congress is in session, Capitol Words visualizes the most frequently used words in the Congressional Record, giving you an at-a-glance view of which issues lawmakers address on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. Capitol Words lets you see what are the most popular words spoken by lawmakers on the House and Senate floor. But wait, there's more! Capitol Words also gives you the ability to view with greater granularity which words are most frequently used by Congress as a whole, by state delegation or by specific lawmaker. It also reports on word usage trends: You can search by specific word to see its usage frequency over time, including which lawmakers most mention that term. You can also compare usage of individual terms (e.g., health vs. education) or groups of terms (e.g., health + education vs. war + terror). You can see who are the most vocal or quietest members of Congress (i.e., those who have the most or least words attributed to them in the Congressional Record, including via extended remarks). The Capitol Words site is powered by data collected by Sunlight's LOUIS database from GPO Access. Its API provides several methods of accessing detailed information from the Capitol Words database. All data, the calendar view of the word of the day and charts showing word usage trends go back to the second session of the 106th Congress (January 24, 2000). Views that attribute word usage to lawmakers date back to the beginning of the 110th Congress (January 3, 2007). This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to New Economy Analytics, Resources and Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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