Een beeld zegt meer dan duizend woorden

Het bovenstaande plaatje komt van de 'State of the Union Parsing Tool'. Een meer dan aardige tool waarbij de jaarlijkse rede van de Amerikaanse president visueel geanaliseerd kan worden.
Het werkt simpel. Op je scherm zie je een aantal redes van de afgelopen jaren waarbij woorden omgezet zijn in grijze streepjes. Boven aan je scherm kan je twee trefwoorden invoeren. De gekozen trefwoorden krijgen een rode en blauwe kleur. In één oogopslag is te zien hoe vaak en wanneer deze woorden zijn gebruikt.
Neem bijvoorbeeld de trefwoorden 'America' en 'world'. Meteen wordt duidelijk in welke jaren de buitenlandse politiek een belangrijk issue was.
Of 'hope' en 'terror': de eerste rede van George W. Bush was vrij hoopvol maar sloeg al snel om in de jaren erna.

Het openingscherm van de parsing tool bevat alle toespraken van George W. maar het is mogelijk om deze te vergelijken met die van George Washington, Abrahan Lincoln, Ronald Reagan en Bill Clinton.

Een enigszins vergelijkbare methode, die je wat vaker ziet, is de tagcloud. In een tagcloud zie je een aantal gebruikte trefwoorden waarbij de lettergrootte aangeeft hoe vaak zo'n woord gebruikt is.
Ter illustratie heb ik de troonredes van afgelopen acht jaar omgezet.
Een woord als 'zullen' ontbreekt in de troonrede van het huidige kabinet terwijl het in de jaren daarvoor nadrukkelijk aanwezig was.
Wat zijn jullie conclusies als we het hebben over stijl en koers van de troonredes in de afgelopen acht jaar?

2007: kabinet Balkenende IV (CDA, PvdA, ChristenUnie)

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2006: kabinet Balkenende III (CDA, VVD)

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2005: kabinet Balkenende II (CDA, VVD, D'66)

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2004: kabinet Balkenende II (CDA, VVD, D'66)

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2003: kabinet Balkenende II (CDA, VVD, D'66)

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2002: kabinet Balkenende I (CDA, LPF, VVD)

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2001: kabinet Kok II (Paars II) (PvdA, VVD, D'66)

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2000: kabinet Kok II (Paars II) (PvdA, VVD, D'66)

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