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Wordclouds from English opengovchat - Dec 15, 2011

Wordle wordclouds from English #opengovchat on December 15, 2011 from the opening announcement to 18h45 (specifically from @Mod_TBS_SCT at 16:58:41 to @dlq 18:45:18).   Text extracted from a Twitter archive I made.  High-frequency words like opengovchat itself, as well as Canada and RT were removed.  In some wordclouds opengov was also removed.  It doesn't keep things with underscores together (e.g. @Mod_TBS_SCT or @TBS_Canada) which is why you get some partial Twitter user IDs.  Also in some Wordle removed the @ signs.

Previously:
December 15, 2011  Canadian #opengovchat - archives & hackfests

Wordclouds of open data responses to Canadian Open Government Consultation Week 1

Responses are available per-question, however unfortunately there is no text download; I had to scrape the responses from the site.  Here are wordclouds of the responses to the Open Data section, question 1 "What could be done to make it easier for you to find and use government data provided online?" as of the morning of December 10, 2011 (the first week of the consultation).  Note that the Open Information section has the same question for information rather than data "What could be done to make it easier for you to find government information online?"  It's not clear to me how many people will distinguish between finding data and finding information.

The raw text I scraped is available in a Google Doc.

The three images below (generated using wordle) are all the same text, just different arrangements.  I also did one with open data questions 1 & 3 combined, but the results weren't much different.  Since there's no tag/hashtag declared for the consultation, I just tagged them with the Twitter tag for the the upcoming discussion: opengovchat

Previously:
December 6, 2011  Public consultation on Canadian Open Government

Next:
December 19, 2011  Wordclouds of open data responses to Canadian Open Government Consultation Week 2