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textmining_southpark
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walkerkq / textmining_southpark

textmining_southpark

https://www.kaylinpavlik.com/text-mining-south-park/

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
173GitHub stars
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https://www.kaylinpavlik.com/text-mining-south-park/

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HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-02-10 13:16:59 UTC to 2016-02-10 21:30:45 UTC.

012016-02-10 13:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 10, 13:002016-02-10 14:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-10 15:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-10 16:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-10 17:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 10, 17:002016-02-10 18:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-10 19:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-10 20:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-10 21:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-10 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 10, 21:00

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Feb 10, 13:002016-02-10 13:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 14:00:00 UTC101
Feb 10, 14:002016-02-10 14:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 15:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 15:002016-02-10 15:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 16:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 16:002016-02-10 16:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 17:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 17:002016-02-10 17:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 18:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 18:002016-02-10 18:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 19:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 19:002016-02-10 19:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 20:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 20:002016-02-10 20:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 21:00:00 UTC000
Feb 10, 21:002016-02-10 21:00:00 UTC2016-02-10 22:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Hi, I'm the author. I appreciate the time you've taken to read and provide constructive criticism of my work. Here's my full write up (on GitHub, so it should continue to work): https://github.com/walkerkq/textmining_southpark/blob/master... I was working under the assumption that we do not know ALL the words since the show's been renewed through 2019. This covers the first 18 seasons. Additionally, the counting up their most frequent words produced results with very little semantic meaning - things like "just" and "dont" - which can be seen in this (really boring) wordcloud: https://github.com/walkerkq/textmining_southpark/blob/master... Looking into the log likelihood of each word for each speaker produced results that were much more intuitive and carried more meaning, like ppod said below: I think the idea is that what we are really tr
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ying to measure is something unobservable like the underlying nature of the character or the writers' tendencies to give characters certain ways of speaking.
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