State of the Dork

Last week I attended, Dorkbot NYC, the dorkbot that spawned a million dorks. This was my first time, though I had been meaning to go for ages. To be honest, I was a little disappointed. Although I enjoyed the overall feeling of crowding into a room packed full of people who get visibly excited at the words Arduino, Bandwidth, or soldering, the presentations fell a bit short. I felt a bit guilty because of the four presentations, only one was done by a guy, but that was the one I liked. Oops. His presentation was a kind of data art where he took every State of the Union address and made a visualization tool to that shows everything from language complexity to word frequency and location in the speech. So without further ado I present State of the Union, my fave from the last dorkbot.