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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Visualization of Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census

19-Jan-10

A really quick visualization I did while researching data for another project.  Census.gov has a link to the most frequently occurring first names and surnames from the 1990 census.  Surely more current data must exists; I found this dataset by accident. The original data is tab-delimited in the format: Name Frequency in percent Cumulative Frequency [...]

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The Big Lebowski in a word frequency cloud

05-Jan-10

While doing some research(yeah, right!) for my latest twitter bot @TheBotLebowski, I found a copy of the original script. Sounded like a good candidate for a word cloud, right? The only scrubbing of the data I had to do was to remove the capitalized character’s name that’s printed above every line of dialog. A simple [...]

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