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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/01/trump-sotu.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>President Trump's State of the Union speech was last night, and it seemed to me it dragged on a bit. That's because it was apparently the slowest SOTU speech in history, based on average number of words spoken per minute. The chart below, based on <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou_words.php" target="_blank">these data</a>, was created by <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/jshkatz/status/958729347522809858" target="_blank">Josh Katz</a>. (The R code for the chart <a rel="nofollow" href="https://gist.github.com/joshkatz/c4fd0bdd0e2a06720b71d62d0b94c739" target="_blank">is here</a>. Note the use of his <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/needs/versions/0.0.3/topics/needs?tap_a=5644-dce66f&tap_s=10907-287229" target="_blank">needs package</a> to load the required R packages.)</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/jshkatz/status/958715093885358081" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Trump sotu" title="Trump sotu" src="http://a1.typepad.com/6a0105360ba1c6970c01b8d2d5ed29970c-800wi"></a></p>
<p>Peter Aldhous at Buzzfeed <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-state-of-the-union-words?utm_term=.xnNY9yMDl#.tbr8QJvA7" target="_blank">analyzed last night's State of the Union speech</a> as well. Not only was the speech delivered slowly, the script was at a 9-year-old's reading level, following a long-term decline in the complexity of State of the Union speeches.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-state-of-the-union-words?utm_term=.xnNY9yMDl#.tbr8QJvA7" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="SOTU-reading-level" title="SOTU-reading-level" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b7c94b8201970b-800wi"></a></p>
<p>You can find more analysis of this and past SOTU speeches at the link below. The <a rel="nofollow" href="https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2018-01-trump-state-of-the-union/" target="_blank">R code behind the analysis can be found here</a>. (You may also want to check out this <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-twitter-wars?utm_term=.cs93EkKXK#.atgmZQoRo" target="_blank">analysis of Trump's Twitter activity</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2018-01-trump-twitter-wars/" target="_blank">associated R code</a>.)</p>
<p>Buzzfeed: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-state-of-the-union-words?utm_term=.xnNY9yMDl#.tbr8QJvA7" target="_blank">“I Have The Best Words.” How Trump’s First SOTU Compares To All The Others.</a></p>
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