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Visualizing the Primary Debates

Charles Landau on August 01, 2019

The past couple days in the US, the Democrats have been debating about who should get to run against Trump. The transcripts seemed like a fun subje...
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Thao Thanh Luu

The word clouds are really difficult to read due to the colors but regardless this is great!

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Charles Landau

Thanks for the feedback! I also did a light-themed version but in my quick testing I felt that it looked worse. You can check it out below:

light_themed_wc

Let me know if you think that's better

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Kevin K. Johnson

Probably easier to read, but both versions have contrast issues. The purples on the dark background, the yellows on the light background.

Additionally, word clouds are a bit difficult to read generally.

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Charles Landau

Yea I agree with that. The Python wordclouds package does the best it can.

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David J Eddy

Any chance we could get links to large format images? They look interesting but are small (when I click on them). I esp. like the word cloud concept.

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Charles Landau

Thanks! The source images are in the kaggle link I shared at the top.

kaggle.com/charleslandau/democrati...