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A look at non-English graffiti

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The most common non-English languages found in Regenstein graffiti are Arabic (12), French (10), Chinese (9), Spanish (8), and Latin (6). Three of those five fall under the category of “less-commonly taught languages”. This got me thinking: clearly the amount of graffiti in a language isn’t proportional to how many students study it. (Various traits, [...]

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Crescat Graffiti: The Word Cloud

Monday, January 18, 2010

After a couple weeks of off-and-on data entry, I’ve finally put together a Google Docs spreadsheet with all the text from the Reg graffiti collection, and a brief description of all the doodles. More data crunching is coming in the days ahead, but I’d like to start things off with a couple quick-and-flashy word clouds, [...]

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