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The Virginians

Plaintext for William Makepeace Thackeray's "The Virginians"

(356656 words/1978653 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["The Virginians"]
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View the data:

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TextCases[ResourceData["The Virginians"], "Paragraph"][[10]]
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Visualization

Create a word cloud:

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WordCloud[DeleteStopwords[ResourceData["The Virginians"]]]
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Show the most frequently used verbs:

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BarChart[ TakeLargest[ Counts[TextCases[ResourceData["The Virginians"], "Verb"]], 20] // Reverse, BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "The Virginians" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.87413.data

Data Resource History

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Source Metadata

  • Title: The Virginians
  • Creator: William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Date: 1857
  • Language: English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research