2014 - October - Entire General Conference

Welcome! Here is the first post of hopefully many. My goal is to analyze the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by looking at statistics of commonly used words from the words of living and past prophets. These will come from the biannual General Conference speeches, scriptures (the Book of Mormon, the Holy Bible, the Pearl of Great Price, hymns, etc), and other speeches.

I'm looking for trends:

• Trends over the course of one conference
• Trends based on who conference speeches were addressed to (eg, Priesthood sessions compared to the General Women's sessions)
• Trends looking at one speaker at a time (eg, the living Prophet, Thomas S. Monson)
• Trends over the years (eg, comparing recent Conferences to ones held 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago)

I plan on being as open and straight forward as possible -- I'll give you all the stats that I find and I'll explain my process.

Lets start off with my first word cloud that sparked my interest in making this blog.

October 2014 General Conference Word Cloud and Stats

Stats:

• 6 sessions, 2 hours per session
• 4 general sessions
• 1 Priesthood session
• 1 Women's session
• Total number of speakers: 38
• Total length: 12 hours
• Total words: 64,307

Prayers and music were not included.

Here are the word rankings and frequency of use:

Rank	Word	Total	Rate
1	God	292	0.45%
2	Christ	264	0.41%
3	Jesus	264	0.41%
4	Lord	185	0.29%
5	Church	183	0.28%
6	life	154	0.24%
7	one	150	0.23%
8	Father	118	0.18%
9	more	114	0.18%
10	gospel	114	0.18%
11	time	111	0.17%
12	Savior	102	0.16%
13	world	102	0.16%
14	President	101	0.16%
15	family	97	0.15%

There's the first post--thanks for tuning in! Any suggestions for future topics or further explanations?