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Engagement Lab @ Emerson College

We're an applied research and design lab that investigates and creates media and technology to reduce disparities in civic participation. http://elab.emerson.edu/

Poetry, Politics, and Data Analysis

4 min readApr 26, 2016

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Campaign Limericks is a set of data visualizations and a series of parties where participants remix presidential candidates’ speeches into limericks.
Planned parenthood wants to kill and sell your son / Stick with me and Obama won’t take your gun / The United States wants a real thriller / The American people trust the zodiac killer / Vote president Cruz for real American fun
Party goers wrote limericks on everything from easel pads to post-it notes on pizza boxes
Participants using DataBasic’s tool WordCounter to analyze the political speeches of presidential candidates.
color corresponds to the candidate who most frequently spoke that word or phrase while the size of the term is the relative frequency of that word related to other words spoken on the campaign trail.

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Engagement Lab @ Emerson College
Engagement Lab @ Emerson College

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We're an applied research and design lab that investigates and creates media and technology to reduce disparities in civic participation. http://elab.emerson.edu/

Jordan Pailthorpe
Jordan Pailthorpe

Written by Jordan Pailthorpe

I like making things and playing things and riding things. Product Designer at @nextrequest

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