this is one that's being run in Hungary:
http://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/blog/posts/pippi_longstrings.html
Cheers
Sam
On 4 Nov 2010, at 22:41, Tim Green wrote:
> Reminds me of the possibility someone raised (or maybe they were saying it
> had already been done on the US congress?) of analysing transcripts for
> evidence of correlated speech patterns (e.g. a particular identical repeated
> phrase or unusual word across lots of members) as an automated way of
> determining which groups are influenced, for example, by lobbying and perhaps
> infer some sort of network (say someone using a particular phrase and then
> everyone else copying them). Not entirely sure how it'd be done, but it could
> be interesting.
>
> Tim
>
> On 04/11/2010 20:12, Owen Blacker wrote:
>> In case any of you haven't seen this, it's a great use of TheyWorkForYou in
>> a way I'd never thought of: http://www.tomscott.com/lords/
>>
>> It stems from the intensely strange story that Charles Stross blogged
>> yesterday:
>> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/11/conspiracy-theories.html
>> "Did somebody just try to buy the British government?". Effectively, Tom
>> Scott used TWFY as a corpus on which to do lexical analysis of Lords
>> speeches.
>>
>> Interesting piece, with interesting visualisation coming out of it.
>>
>> And the blog comments on Charlie's post are batshit crazyinteresting.
>>
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