Distant Reader

Size & Scope

First, the simple things. Your study carrel was created through the submission of a [SINGLE URL|FILE OF URLS|FILE FROM YOUR COMPUTER|ZIP FILE]. This ultimately resulted in a collection of 150 item(s). The original versions of these items have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the following analysis has been done against these plain text files.

Your study carrel is 10,957,536 words long. [0] Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 73,050 words long. [1] If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following illustrate the overall size of your study carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, your documents have an average readability score of 67. [2] Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following illustrate the overall readability of your study carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of your carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include: [3]

one, will, may, man, must, nature, us, things, life, good, first, mind, without, time, men, even, world, reason, also, two, every, god, great, now, like, therefore, nothing, greek, true, say, much, ideas, another, human, soul, many, see, philosophy, thought, knowledge, plato, well, idea, made, yet, thing, matter, part, make, body

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Aristotle, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, and Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 4.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

let us, one another, every one, human nature, every thing, human mind, nothing else, de la, every man, one thing, first place, even though, human life, like manner, will never, common sense, tells us, one may, simple ideas, something else, one hand, human race, may say, intelligible world, man may, will find, anything else, one man, set forth, many things, must necessarily, one side, take place, shall find, much less, human body, must also, give us, takes place, gives us, wise man, old age, makes us, good man, will always, shall see, two things, one else, great deal, one will

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Essays of Adam Smith Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions., and Creative Evolution.

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in your study carrel include:

god, man, thing, nature, life, good, great, plato, world, mind, reason, idea, time, socrates, philosophy, aristotle, footnote, form, greek, mr., christianity, soul, truth, object, kant, england, like, german, cause, human, schopenhauer, paris, art, work, science, principle, power, love, law, christian, true, fact, experience, chapter, matter, james, republic, new, moral, locke

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If your study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be man, and Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good is most about that word.

If your study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If your study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

man, nature, god - A Treatise of Human Nature
life, philosophy, time - Man a Machine
plato, greek, footnote - Aristotle
man, things, good - Meditations
time, man, great - The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

man, things, nature, life, men, mind, world, time, reason, nothing, ideas, soul, knowledge, thing, philosophy, idea, p., one, body, truth, part, power, way, sense, others, matter, object, existence, order, fact, form, thought, something, place, experience, case, objects, principle, art, cause, words, science, self, work, love, action, law, pleasure, view, kind

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, are, have, was, has, had, were, been, do, being, does, say, see, made, make, said, know, find, think, take, did, called, give, let, having, found, given, according, come, become, am, seems, says, makes, exist, believe, taken, thought, put, go, known, call, consider, done, seem, appear, seen, gives, feel

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

_, god, plato, greek, footnote, aristotle, de, i., kai\, thou, socrates, sokrates, c., s, ii, la, pp, mr., b., nietzsche, et, nature, le, iv, vi, iii, n, m., christianity, james, ., republic, heaven, de\, kant, mill, vol, bruno, christ, diderot, tô, bergson, philosophy, spencer, est, n., to\, soul, matter, england

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, he, his, we, i, they, their, its, them, you, our, him, us, itself, my, himself, me, themselves, your, her, she, ourselves, one, myself, thy, yourself, herself, thee, thyself, oneself, yours, ours, mine, theirs, ii, ye, je, oi, yourselves, ourself, hers, ''em, iv, thou, whereof, ce, ''s, i._--you, to/, ti

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, same, such, own, good, great, true, many, first, human, more, different, certain, general, natural, new, little, real, common, particular, present, moral, whole, necessary, possible, much, last, greater, old, least, universal, able, only, second, few, impossible, free, better, best, mere, most, simple, practical, absolute, very, less, right, beautiful, divine, pure

not, so, only, more, then, even, as, also, most, now, therefore, very, thus, never, well, far, here, up, always, still, out, however, too, just, much, ever, yet, again, indeed, all, first, rather, once, often, less, perhaps, merely, really, no, already, together, else, there, at, on, alone, down, long, away, sometimes

Next steps

Here is a prioritized list of next steps to thus get more out of your study carrel:

browse, sort, and search the content of the menu items named Ngrams, POS, Grammars, and Others found at the top of this page to acquire more detail about your carrel
read standard-output.txt, as it will both summarize and elaborate upon this narrative report
read MANIFEST.htm to both inventory your study carrel as well as learn how to answer more specific questions of it

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