I haven’t had a chance to do any analysis of last night SOTU address, but Nate Silver has some interesting observations about the matrix of word-count comparisons to other such addresses over recent decades.
[Update: and more here from Jamie Pennebaker.]
[Update 2: discussion of computational models of standing ovations by Dan Katz, including a link to a NetLogo applet.]
[Update 3: for a discussion of the actual content, see James Fallows in the Atlantic.]
[Update 4, taking the prize — the Daily Show.]
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