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Following a friend’s suggestion, here’s a comparison of phrase length distributions between the English and German versions of The Adventures…

Here’s a sentence length vs. frequency distribution graph for Chesterton, Poe, and Swift, plus Time of Punishment. A few observations:…

Using the same model as previous posts (and, I’d say, not going against any intuition), the leading candidate to winning…

Here are the magic word squares for a few of Chesterton’s books. Whether and how they reflect characteristics that differentiate…

I’ve adapted the predictive model to look at the Spanish Liga. Unsurprisingly, it’s currently giving Barcelona a 96.7% chance of…

Thinking about magic squares, I had the idea of doing something roughly similar with words, but using usage patterns rather…

Here’s a graph showing how the probability of winning the Argentinean soccer championship changed over time for each team (time…

I’ve just put together a new collection of short-shorts, Time of Punishment: Twenty-five Very Short Stories for the Last Month…

Team Championship probability Vélez Sarfield 85.4% Lanús 14.6%

As Argentina’s Torneo Inicial begins its last three rounds, let’s try to compute the probabilities of championship for each team….