Making interconnected information visible

In the same category as Mark’s and Simon’s posts on data visualization, look at this visualization of this raw text. I assume Slate created the visualization by hand but it’s not hard to imagine it being programmatically generating from semi-structured text. (Note: GSm takes no position on political issues.)
[h/t Ellen]

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Obama’s speech word-clouded: how about argument-mapped?

PlanBlog condenses (using Wordle) Barack Obama’s Berlin speech, given today, into a word cloud (see both the word cloud and the speech). Interesting… as Eugene Eric Kim comments, world is the most frequently used word.
Any tools to open up the speech’s argument or idea or intentional structure?

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Gapminder: hands-on data-viz

The GSm founding community has strong representation from people interested in the next generation of tools for structuring, manipulating and analysing dialogue and debate at different scales. Complementing these are, of course, tools that will help us work directly with the data, in order to tease out and explain hypotheses and claims that can [...]

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