What stood out for you at the most recent General Conference?
Methodology
(1) I copied the text for each talk from each of the six sessions of the October 2014 General Conference (including the sustainings) from LDS.org into a Word document.
(2) I (mostly) only included the language that was delivered orally; I didn’t copy the name of the speaker or the title of the talk. A few of the talks had headings, though, and I didn’t go back to take those out. I also didn’t take out the parenthetical scripture references.
(3) A few of the talks were delivered in non-English versions; I copied the English translations of those talks listed on LDS.org.
(4) I copied and pasted the text at Wordle.
(5) Wordle has a default list of words that it ignores for purposes of creating a word cloud. I didn’t alter those. The only changes I made to the default word cloud were (a) changing the orientation from mostly vertical to mostly horizontal, and (b) changing from the horrific default font.
If you care, you can see the Java version of the word cloud here.
Filed under: General Conference, Mormon, TCoJCoLDS Tagged: general conference, methodology, october 2014, word cloud
