Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Guess the play!

EDIT: It's Hamlet!

I had a little lightbulb, so I took the full text of a Shakespeare play and made a Wordle of it. I used a find/replace function to remove all the names and common words like act, scene, enter, exit, etc. I also took out some of the more obvious words that might give the play away instantly. I was wondering if the big picture view most frequently repeated words would give insight into the play, and I think they do. I'm also wondering if people can guess the play based on this kind of visual analysis. Anybody want to take a guess in the comments?

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