Ban Ki-moon’s Remarks on the Floods in Pakistan

Here is a Wordle of Ban Ki-moon’s opening remarks at press conference following his visit to the flood-affected zones in Pakistan Stay tuned for more UN speeches, hopefully with timeline. The text of the speech has been cleaned with words like “of”, “and”, “the”, etc removed. The easiest way I’ve found is to copy the [...]

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

Numerical information is becoming more and more important in news reporting. This is not only due to interactive web abilities (I’ll write another post on this) but because big news is news of scale. For instance, the floods in Pakistan are now being put into context with figures. The number of people suffering from the [...]