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Moby Dick

Plaintext for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Moby Dick"]
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View the data:

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TextCases[ResourceData["Moby Dick"], "Paragraph"][[10]]
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Visualization

Create a word cloud:

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WordCloud[DeleteStopwords[ResourceData["Moby Dick"]]]
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Compare word lengths between different works:

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PairedHistogram[StringLength /@ TextWords[ResourceData["Moby Dick"]], StringLength /@ TextWords[ResourceData["A Tale of Two Cities"]], Automatic]
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Wolfram Research, "Moby Dick" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2016) https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.48217.data

Data Resource History

  • Date Created: 26 August 2016

Source Metadata

  • Title: Moby Dick
  • Creator: Herman Melville
  • Date: 1851
  • Language: English

Data Downloads

Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research