Computer analysis of books (again)


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Posted by Magnus Smith on November 25, 2013 at 08:49:51 user Magnus.

I've found another study which looks at word frequency and even most common sentences when comparing the books in the The Hunger Games, Twilight, and Harry Potter seriessss. It is essentially asking, "which words are used most frequently in comparison to similar authors — that is, which words are most distinctive to a given author’s work."

They look at the most distinctive adjectives, most distinctive adverbs (how naughty, I thought you weren't supposed to use them!) and even have a table showing the top 10 most used complete sentences by each of the 3 authors (very short sentences).

This is something I would think about performing on the 12 S&A books. It is interesting, and nerdy....but maybe I can't quite justify the few hours it would take! Maybe over Christmas when I'm supposed to be resting.

In the meantime you can all discuss why The Big Six has noticeably more question marks (850) compared to Great Northern? which has a question mark in its title but only 585 within the text of the book! Is it all the interrogation the detectives perform?

By the way, Pigeon Post has 340 exclamation marks compared to S&A with only 105. Is it the shouts of "fire! fire!" that cause it?!!



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