Boiling Down Books, Algorithmically
destinyland writes "A year ago, Aaron Stanton harangued Google over his new project, a web site analyzing patterns in books to generate infallible recommendations. In March he finally finished a prototype which he showed to Google, Yahoo, and Amazon, and he's just announced that he's finally received a big contract which 'gives us a great deal of potential data to work with.' The 25-year-old's original prototype examined over 200 books, plotting 729,000 data points across 30,293 scenes — but its universe of analyzed novels is about to become much, much bigger."
I love how the prototype version in the link gives a 98% match between George Orwell's '1984' and the text of the USA Patriot Act!
Also, now that I've played with the "beta" a little I want to see the graphs for Finnegans Wake.
Well ex-scrolls me, you codex-fancying fascist! ;)
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Of course you need to leave in Danielle Steele. Harald Robbins too. After all, you can't neglect the classics, can you?
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I dunno, man. Pretty much every point you covered is Wiki-able. [Citation needed]
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Also, now that I've played with the "beta" a little I want to see the graphs for Finnegans Wake.
My GOD ... it's a Mandelbrot set!!!
What about synonyms?
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.