BBC General Election WordCloud

For those of us in the UK, you may have noticed there’s an election going on. It seems like it’s been going on for months already….

Anyway, BBC Radio 5 Live is a talk (and sport) radio station – they’ve put together a cool application that will track all the topics that are being discussed on the air, and will display them as a word cloud. The more a topic is discussed, the bigger it is. You can scroll back through time and look at different days. You can even click on keywords and listen to clips from the shows related to that word.

This would be a cool thing to show students and use as a starting point for discussion. You can find the Word Cloud here.

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