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In this chapter, we derive and compare word frequency data. We learn about vector recycling, and the exercises invite you to compare the frequencies of several words in Melville’s Moby Dick to the same words in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility.
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L. Jockers, M., Thalken, R. (2020). Accessing and Comparing Word Frequency Data. In: Text Analysis with R. Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39643-5_3
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