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From the Ted Talk by R. Luke DuBois: Insightful human portraits made from data

Unscramble the Blue Letters


This is a self-portrait. This is based on my eiaml, about 500,000 elaims sent over 20 years. You can think of this as a quantified selfie. So what I'm doing is running a physics etiuoqan based on my personal data. You have to imagine everybody I've ever corresponded with. It started out in the midlde and it exploded with a big bang. And everybody has gravity to one another, gravity based on how much they've been eimliang, who they've been emailing with. And it also does sentimental analysis, so if I say "I love you," you're hveeiar to me. And you attract to my email addresses in the middle, which act like mainline stars. And all the names are handwritten.

Open Cloze


This is a self-portrait. This is based on my _____, about 500,000 ______ sent over 20 years. You can think of this as a quantified selfie. So what I'm doing is running a physics ________ based on my personal data. You have to imagine everybody I've ever corresponded with. It started out in the ______ and it exploded with a big bang. And everybody has gravity to one another, gravity based on how much they've been ________, who they've been emailing with. And it also does sentimental analysis, so if I say "I love you," you're _______ to me. And you attract to my email addresses in the middle, which act like mainline stars. And all the names are handwritten.

Solution


  1. middle
  2. heavier
  3. email
  4. emails
  5. emailing
  6. equation

Original Text


This is a self-portrait. This is based on my email, about 500,000 emails sent over 20 years. You can think of this as a quantified selfie. So what I'm doing is running a physics equation based on my personal data. You have to imagine everybody I've ever corresponded with. It started out in the middle and it exploded with a big bang. And everybody has gravity to one another, gravity based on how much they've been emailing, who they've been emailing with. And it also does sentimental analysis, so if I say "I love you," you're heavier to me. And you attract to my email addresses in the middle, which act like mainline stars. And all the names are handwritten.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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musical structure 3
george washington 3
times square 3
hollywood cinema 2
britney spears 2
union addresses 2
time talking 2
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online dating 2
zip code 2
dating profiles 2
long island 2


Important Words


  1. act
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  3. analysis
  4. attract
  5. bang
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  13. equation
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  16. handwritten
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  23. personal
  24. physics
  25. quantified
  26. running
  27. selfie
  28. sentimental
  29. stars
  30. started
  31. years