presinaug

This repository contains a suite of scripts used for Grokking Presidentinal Inaugural Addresses from George Washington to Barack Obama.

Fun with NLTK, pygal, and word_cloud

NLTK

Analyze the full-text, tag parts of speech, provide word frequency distirbutions

pygal

Create a barchart showing the Parts of Speech in the form of an .svg

word_cloud

Generate a wordcloud (independent from NLTK) in the form of a .png

How it was done:

• wget the full set of texts
• strip of the gutenberg specific language (but keep the original file for attribution's sake)
• run the presinaug-nltk.py
• run the presinaug-charts.py
• run the presinaug-cloud.py

Installing

Though these are disparate tools, you can install each to run the component scripts manually. Start with:

pip install Cython

This above line goes into an install_requires section in a proper setup.py (coming soon).

After that, you then run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

which should contain all the component libraries you'll need

Authors

• Ralph Bean rbean@redhat.com
• Nate Case qalthos@gmail.com
• Remy DeCausemaker remyd@civx.us