Characters/Word November 2004

This is count #4.

Intro

I took some AIM logs (the ones that were > 75 KB; about 2,000 lines) that run from between July 19 and November 19, 2004. I removed everything that wasn't user-typed (sign on/off, timestamp, screen name, etc).

Then I used Word to count words, characters, lines, and other fun stuff. The figures here include my half of the convo as well as the half from the person whose name is listed.

I don't know what you might find interesting about these numbers, but Gene's been bugging me to do this so I finally gave in and calculated these numbers.

The Numbers

These are tables sorted by characters per word, words per line, percent of words that are lol's, and percent of words that are haha's.

Chars/Word
CiCi 4.369
Gene 4.316
Shelley 4.196
Charles 4.174
Will 4.121
Ronjon 4.110
Davita 4.094
Tiffany 4.079
Eva 4.016
Lilly 3.980
Akbar 3.975
Ai 3.972
Tricia 3.941
Bill 3.911
Mary 3.830
Words/Line
Tiffany 4.346
Charles 4.331
Bill 4.088
Lilly 4.037
Gene 3.944
Shelley 3.908
Ai 3.782
CiCi 3.757
Eva 3.748
Akbar 3.718
Tricia 3.676
Ronjon 3.666
Will 3.622
Davita 3.405
Mary 3.325
lol/word %
Will 6.792
Gene 6.769
CiCi 3.598
Shelley 3.386
Tricia 3.216
Akbar 3.104
Charles 3.013
Ronjon 2.709
Lilly 2.708
Mary 2.646
Eva 2.637
Ai 2.260
Bill 1.929
Tiffany 1.840
Davita 1.140
haha/word %
Davita 2.695
Tiffany 2.059
Lilly 1.672
Tricia 1.600
Akbar 0.838
Shelley 0.641
CiCi 0.569
Eva 0.547
Ai 0.487
Gene 0.475
Will 0.464
Mary 0.429
Ronjon 0.365
Charles 0.278
Bill 0.188

What's Interesting

Nothing.

Or maybe I'm just too sleepy right now. I'm not sure which.

Well, I did find one thing interesting. Four small Asian girls (sags) completely dominate in the % haha category, and the top nine are Asian girls if we count Akbar as an Asian girl. Nothing else really strikes me as worth mentioning.

Explanations

If you're confused, I'll explain here what this is supposed to mean.

Chars/Word is the average amount of letters (not including spaces) per word. Words/Line is, obviously, the average number of words per line of the log. An IM (no matter how long) is one line unless someone typed a line break into it.

lol/word % is the number of lol's per 100 words. If you were to randomly take a sample of 100 words from between Will and me, you would probably get 7 lol's. Similarly, haha/word % is the number of haha's per 100 words.

Last updated November 22, 2004.
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