Monday, March 15, 2010

Differential Healthcare wordles

Over at the political stats blog fivethirtyeight.com, guru Nate has wordled responses from a recent poll on Healthcare. While this is interesting, I don't think it is the best way to look at the data. So here are differential wordles for the For and Aganist responses.

Methodology


Cut responce text (unedited) out of spreadsheet and into text file, then into wordle. Get word frequencies, and copy/paste to excell. Eliminate common pronouns and prepositions. Cut off words with frequency less than 10. At this point, there were ~11% more against words than for words, so frequencies were normalized. Against words were reculled at 11, and normalization was redone (it changes by less than 2%). For and Against totals were subtracted from one another, and wordles were made from both sides for whichever had more of a given word.

Note that I have left many common words in to see if their frequency is different between the two camps.

Against:




For:




Against data:



wordagainst diff
ABLE0
ABORTION13
ABOUT13
ACCESS0
AFFORD0
AFFORDABLE0
ALL0
ANY0
ANYTHING15
ARE0
AS0
AT0
BECAUSE0
BELIEVE7
BETTER0
BILL27
BUT0
BY11
CAN0
CAN'T0
CARE0
CHANGE0
CHILDREN0
COMPANIES0
CONTROL3
COST43
COSTS23
COUNTRY0
COVERAGE0
DO14
DOESN'T14
DONE1
DON'T97
ECONOMY16
EVEN0
EVERYBODY0
EVERYONE0
EXPENSIVE4
FOR0
FREE11
GET0
GO10
GOING48
GONNA13
GOOD6
GOVERNMENT87
HAS3
HAVE0
HE20
HEALTH0
HEALTHCARE0
HELP0
HURT12
I84
IF0
I'M0
IN0
INCREASE16
INSURANCE0
INTO12
INVOLVED13
JUST13
KNOW13
LIKE12
LOT0
MAKE1
MANY0
ME5
MEDICARE16
MEDICINE11
MONEY14
MORE15
MUCH35
MY0
NEED0
NEEDS0
NO5
NOT44
NOW0
ON15
ONE20
OR1
OUR0
OUT0
PAY24
PAYING14
PEOPLE0
PROVIDE0
READ11
RIGHT0
SHOULD9
SO0
SOME0
SOMETHING0
START0
SYSTEM0
TAXES13
THAN0
THEIR9
THEM0
THERE0
THEY18
THINGS23
THINK68
THIS0
TOO48
UNINSURED0
UP4
US23
WANT35
WAY1
WE0
WELL14
WHAT21
WHEN0
WHO0
WILL34
WITH10
WITHOUT0
WORK33
WORLD0
WOULD6
YEARS0
YOU1


For data:



wordfor diff
ABLE13
ABORTION0
ABOUT0
ACCESS12
AFFORD29
AFFORDABLE15
ALL0
ANY12
ANYTHING0
ARE44
AS2
AT2
BECAUSE69
BELIEVE0
BETTER30
BILL0
BUT1
BY0
CAN9
CAN'T15
CARE0
CHANGE14
CHILDREN12
COMPANIES24
CONTROL0
COST0
COSTS0
COUNTRY20
COVERAGE24
DO0
DOESN'T0
DONE0
DON'T0
ECONOMY0
EVEN13
EVERYBODY12
EVERYONE28
EXPENSIVE0
FOR0
FREE0
GET22
GO0
GOING0
GONNA0
GOOD0
GOVERNMENT0
HAS0
HAVE86
HE0
HEALTH17
HEALTHCARE107
HELP21
HURT0
I0
IF6
I'M4
IN12
INCREASE0
INSURANCE42
INTO0
INVOLVED0
JUST0
KNOW0
LIKE0
LOT28
MAKE0
MANY14
ME0
MEDICARE0
MEDICINE0
MONEY0
MORE0
MUCH0
MY6
NEED45
NEEDS11
NO0
NOT0
NOW9
ON0
ONE0
OR0
OUR4
OUT1
PAY0
PAYING0
PEOPLE104
PROVIDE11
READ0
RIGHT7
SHOULD0
SO27
SOME21
SOMETHING45
START12
SYSTEM10
TAXES0
THAN19
THEIR0
THEM14
THERE21
THEY0
THINGS0
THINK0
THIS13
TOO0
UNINSURED20
UP0
US0
WANT0
WAY0
WE40
WELL0
WHAT0
WHEN13
WHO20
WILL0
WITH0
WITHOUT13
WORK0
WORLD15
WOULD0
YEARS11
YOU0

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