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January 24, 2018

Visualizing trigrams with the Tidyverse (Who Reads Jane Austen?)

Filed under: Literature,R,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 4:41 pm

Visualizing trigrams with the Tidyverse by Emil Hvitfeldt.

From the post:

In this post I’ll go though how I created the data visualization I posted yesterday on twitter:

Great post and R code, but who reads Jane Austen? 😉

I have a serious weakness for academic and ancient texts so the Jane Austen question is meant in jest.

The more direct question is to what other texts would you apply this trigram/visualization technique?

Suggestions?

I have some texts in mind but defer mentioning them while I prepare a demonstration of Hvitfeldt’s technique to them.

PS: I ran across an odd comment in the janeaustenr package:

Each text is in a character vector with elements of about 70 characters.

You have to hunt for a bit but 70 characters is the default plain text line length at Gutenberg. Some poor decisions are going to be with us for a very long time.

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