Mystery text discussion of radio play

[ebeshero]

Post your screenshots and discuss your findings about one or a group of radio plays here!

[ghost]

Worried for my guy John and Horace in Anesthesia.txt. It felt like it was maybe a poem about anesthesia, though it could be something much more sinister. Then I am reading the sentences around the names and it literally reads like some deranged murder/assisted suicide.

Weird as hell.

Also it is cool that both programs pick up the same most used words. But that's probably just because they have the same general programming and whatnot.

Besides that I think the best n-gram size for something like a story is 3. It gives you a general gist of what is in the story without having you read the whole story. I'm sure for like scientific manuals and stuff a smaller or larger n-gram size is more appropriate depending on the subject material.

[SavannahRicks]

The text I randomly chose was an interesting one. When I saw the first word to show up in the word cloud to be "peg," I was like "huh?" But as I explored more of the context I discovered that it was a name of one of the main characters in this story. The reason this name, and others, pop up the most is because its a script for a play. The name shows up everytime that charcter is speaking or doing an action. I also saw that the word "sound" was a big part in the script. I learned by the context of "sound" that this play is suspencful and mysterious. By increasing the n-gram in AntConc, I found out that Pegs full name is Peg Lincoln, and that she is trying to solve some mystery with a couple others.