text-analysis

• Tf-Idf in Google Sheets: implementing text analysis, keyword counting, tokenisation and stemming in a spreadsheet Google Sheets, the online Excel alternative, is basically the Swiss army knife of any modern knowledge worker. We're adding to it's multitude of uses and abuses today by creating a custom Tf-Idf model _in_ Google Sheets. A Tf-Idf model can help us digest large quantities of text like reviews, comments, feedback, chat histories, and even 17th century philosophy books with ease. Continue reading...
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• A Visual Leviathan: Hobbes' Schizophrenic Writing I have spent many hours of my life devoted to studying Thomas Hobbes' book Leviathan. It was published in 1651 and is considered a starting point of modern political philosophy. There is however a strange dichotomy between the first part of the book and the second part of the book. Read on to see how I've used data visualisation to show that difference. Continue reading...
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