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Challenge #182: Word Sleuthing

ultrarunner
8 - Asteroid
 

Mine didn't have the same result either.

 

 

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agrawaluk
8 - Asteroid
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Kenda
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula
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ch12345
7 - Meteor

I'm a bit more fussy about what I consider words, but there are some obvious exclusions that probably shouldn't be (221B being a prime example). There are a lot of rules that could be added to make the extraction less flawed (for example splitting the data using a null, new line and space delimiter and selection of unusual semantics (e.g. multiple spaces or tabs) to detect where a word is unusual and so not acceptable in body text.

 

Anyway, here is a lazy example based on some additional rules as to what might be considered a word.

 

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GBGguilbert
5 - Atom

Like many others in this thread, I can't quite get the total to line, up, but i seem to be going in the right direction with my logic.

 

Anyone have a good work around for splitting the concatenated words?

danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Fun.

 

Big.txt is a compendium of multiple works, though.  Try Remembrance of Things Past for a single monumental work,  700K words in 7 volumes.  Proust had a lot of free time on his hands!

 

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 Dan

wdavis
Alteryx
Alteryx

Solution attached

nini
8 - Asteroid

I got the exact results after I have fixed the truncate issues when import .txt file

cgoodman3
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar
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A different answer to the solution, but in part due to cleaning the data up to make all words lowercase.

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Chris
Check out my collaboration with fellow ACE Joshua Burkhow at AlterTricks.com
LordNeilLord
15 - Aurora

Love the dynamic input tool!!

 

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