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Vocabulary count stat

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  • 12-06-2003 3:06pm
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    flav0rflav
    Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭


    Go on, abuse that database and giv'us a stat showing the number of unique words each poster has. It might increase the level of english of us all. Or increase the amount of alternative spellings.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    p.pete
    Registered Users Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭p.pete


    That's a cool suggestion - suppose it would have to be based on words that match up to a dictionary definition. It would probably be a bitch to implement though.


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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    good god why?

    oh, and "alternative spellings"

    you mean like l33t?


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    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Haha, that sounds funny. It wouldn't actually be that hard to do, it'd probably just murder the database ...

    Hm .... devil.gif


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    elexes
    Registered Users Posts: 4,471 ✭✭✭elexes


    prob cause more probloms then worth


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    #6
    p.pete
    Registered Users Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭p.pete


    Might be easier to occasionaly release the statistics and store them somewhere rather than keeping a running total.


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    flav0rflav
    Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭flav0rflav


    Come on, I'm not great at SQL. I can do it in unix, use sed to replace all white space and punctuation with newline, to get all words on seperate line. Then use sort piped to uniq piped to wc, to sort, remove duplicates and count.


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    p.pete
    Registered Users Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭p.pete


    Originally posted by flav0rflav
    Come on, I'm not great at SQL. I can do it in unix, use sed to replace all white space and punctuation with newline, to get all words on seperate line. Then use sort piped to uniq piped to wc, to sort, remove duplicates and count.
    Yes, but do you want this procedure being run for every single post - I don't know how much you know about it but it could cause a lot of unecessary processing.


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    #9
    davej
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭davej


    How about stats on more high level things like:

    which forum(s) a user posts most to.
    how many threads they actually initiate (as opposed to reply to).


    Based on these type of stats you could also work out which users have the most "interests" in common with each other. It could help you to find your boards.ie soulmate (or arch enemy)!

    davej


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