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All of the so-called “Vatican” Ashley Madison clients are Virginians or Canadians with fat fingers In the week or so since the Ashley Madison hack data dump, there have been many news stories that have reported its contents uncritically, by journalists who have obviously never seen the data. One of the characterizations of the data … Read more all of so called vatican ashley madison
Most characteristic words in pro- and anti-feminist tweets Here are, based on my analysis (which I’ll get to in a moment) clouds of the 40 words most characteristic of anti-feminist and pro-feminist tweets, respectively. anti-feminist pro-feminist Word clouds my may be only semi-quantitative but they have other virtues, like recognizability and explorability. For the purists, … Read more Most characteristic words in pro and
Most decade-specific words in Billboard popular song titles, 1890-2014 Chart first, then explanation (click to enlarge): The inspiration for this post came from my being too lazy to set my iPod to shuffle, and then noticing it played a bunch of songs in a row from the 1930s and ’40s that started with the letters … Read more most decade specific words in billboard
Visualizing word and letter frequencies in Gadsby, a novel without the letter ‘e’ In 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright published the novel Gadsby (gee, I wonder where he came up with that name…), 58,124 words (by my count), none of which contain the letter ‘e’. Here are a few of the features of the English language Wright was … Read more visualizing word and letter frequencies
Projections of White Christmases until the year 2100, based on a climate model Below is a climate model projection of what areas of North America will be snow-covered on December 25 of each year between 2014 and 2100: A few things should be pointed out. First and foremost is: Further to point #1 above, the … Read more Projections of white christmases until
Mythological names are on the rise; Pokémon, not so much. As you can see, mythological boys’ names were pretty negligible until the mid-1990s, after which they’ve had quite an explosion, with boys named Phoenix, Odin and Ares leading the pack. Girls having mythological names was more common than boys in the past, but they’ve increased … Read more Mythological names are on rise pokemon