Over the last two days I looked at the Heatmaps of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as well as news sources and other information about what TextMap is and how I feel about the the service; today I'll look at TextMap Popularity and what it  might mean to both candidates in the next Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

Barack Obama News Source Analysis (above) and Hillary Clinton News Source Analysis (below)

From the looks of it there's a lot more news coverage of Barack than Hillary -What  would be helpful, from my point of view, is to click on the chats above and get the news stories in the media being covered so you can drilldown and compare – esp when the time period overlaps;TextMap does not yet allow you to do that now and is somewhat useless for real analysis.

There's also a sentiment analysis set of charts but I find them difficult to understand.  Maybe all of this information form TextMap is useful to a statistician, but from the point of view for someone that does not use that language – I find it harder to get  much useful out of TextMap yet..even though the TextMap service has a lot of interesting features and is way more interesting, to me, than, say www.Knover.com, which tried to do much the same thing but does not succeed even as well, in my opinion.

Textmap is an intersting service that you can play with – but I would not place much stock in it, for now, just keep an eye on it and hope it gets better. 

The other problem with this service right now is the news sources for each state are way too restrictive and in the case of New York, lacks the New York Times – and I can't imagine this being accurate for New York without it.