{"id":169,"date":"2017-03-30T16:43:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:47:46","slug":"words-plotted-thusly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/03\/30\/words-plotted-thusly\/","title":{"rendered":"Words plotted thusly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via<a href=\"http:\/\/dailynous.com\/2017\/03\/30\/data-about-your-own-writing\/\"> Daily Nous<\/a>, I came across a free set of text analysis tools by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voyant-tools.org\/\">Voyant<\/a>. You can paste in a passage or point it at some URLs, and it will chop it into words and phrases.<\/p>\n<p>I let it chew on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/job\/paper.php?item=senk\">my book<\/a>, and one of the products was this graph of word density:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voyant-toolsSENK.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voyant-toolsSENK.png?resize=533%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"word density\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voyant-toolsSENK.png?w=533&amp;ssl=1 533w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voyant-toolsSENK.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 85vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks all sciencey, like the kind of thing that prop people might put on a screen in the background of a lab scene. It isn&#8217;t very informative, though. The curve has &#8220;species&#8221; dipping below zero, even though it occurs at least once in every segment.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that &#8220;natural&#8221;, &#8220;kind&#8221;, and &#8220;kinds&#8221; make up about three percent of the words in the book. That three percent was, I suppose, the easiest part to write.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Daily Nous, I came across a free set of text analysis tools by Voyant. You can paste in a passage or point it at some URLs, and it will chop it into words and phrases. I let it chew on my book, and one of the products was this graph of word density: It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2017\/03\/30\/words-plotted-thusly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words plotted thusly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-zettel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-2J","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}