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The Teacher-Student Network

11th May 2020 / Andrew Gustar / Leave a comment

I recently stumbled across this page on Wikipedia, listing music students and their teachers. This is an ideal dataset to explore as a network diagram, or “graph”, in which a set of points (or “nodes”) are connected by lines (or “edges”). Here, the nodes are individuals, and there is an edge between them if one taught the other.

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Song Lyrics 2: n-grams

3rd August 2019 / Andrew Gustar / Leave a comment

In the previous article we looked at counting the frequency of words in a dataset of song lyrics. This time we will look at combinations of words – or n-grams.

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