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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Harris: The Web's secret stories

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Finally, location causes the feelings to move to their positions on a world map showing the geographical distribution of feelings. Metrics provides more numerical views on the data. We see that the world is feeling "used" at 3.3 tmies the normal level right now.

(Laughter)

They're feeling "warm" at 2.9 times the nmraol level, and so on. Other views are also available. Here are gender, age, weather, laootcin.

The final mneemvot is called Mounds. It's a bit different from the others. Mounds visualizes the entire dataset as large, gelatinous blobs which kind of jiggle. And if I hold down my cruosr, they do a little dance. We see "better" is the most frequent fienleg, followed by "bad." And then if I go over here, the list bgneis to scroll, and there are actually thousands of feelings that have been collected. You can see the little pink cursor moving along, representing our position. Here we see people that feel "slipping," "nauseous," "responsible."

Open Cloze


Finally, location causes the feelings to move to their positions on a world map showing the geographical distribution of feelings. Metrics provides more numerical views on the data. We see that the world is feeling "used" at 3.3 _____ the normal level right now.

(Laughter)

They're feeling "warm" at 2.9 times the ______ level, and so on. Other views are also available. Here are gender, age, weather, ________.

The final ________ is called Mounds. It's a bit different from the others. Mounds visualizes the entire dataset as large, gelatinous blobs which kind of jiggle. And if I hold down my ______, they do a little dance. We see "better" is the most frequent _______, followed by "bad." And then if I go over here, the list ______ to scroll, and there are actually thousands of feelings that have been collected. You can see the little pink cursor moving along, representing our position. Here we see people that feel "slipping," "nauseous," "responsible."

Solution


  1. location
  2. normal
  3. cursor
  4. times
  5. feeling
  6. movement
  7. begins

Original Text


Finally, location causes the feelings to move to their positions on a world map showing the geographical distribution of feelings. Metrics provides more numerical views on the data. We see that the world is feeling "used" at 3.3 times the normal level right now.

(Laughter)

They're feeling "warm" at 2.9 times the normal level, and so on. Other views are also available. Here are gender, age, weather, location.

The final movement is called Mounds. It's a bit different from the others. Mounds visualizes the entire dataset as large, gelatinous blobs which kind of jiggle. And if I hold down my cursor, they do a little dance. We see "better" is the most frequent feeling, followed by "bad." And then if I go over here, the list begins to scroll, and there are actually thousands of feelings that have been collected. You can see the little pink cursor moving along, representing our position. Here we see people that feel "slipping," "nauseous," "responsible."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
time capsule 5
bill clinton 5
feel fine 4
climate change 4
night sky 3
world today 2
geographical location 2
great stories 2
aurora borealis 2
personal mythology 2


Important Words


  1. age
  2. begins
  3. bit
  4. blobs
  5. called
  6. collected
  7. cursor
  8. dance
  9. data
  10. dataset
  11. distribution
  12. entire
  13. feel
  14. feeling
  15. feelings
  16. final
  17. finally
  18. frequent
  19. gelatinous
  20. gender
  21. geographical
  22. hold
  23. jiggle
  24. kind
  25. large
  26. laughter
  27. level
  28. list
  29. location
  30. map
  31. metrics
  32. mounds
  33. move
  34. movement
  35. moving
  36. normal
  37. numerical
  38. people
  39. pink
  40. position
  41. positions
  42. representing
  43. scroll
  44. showing
  45. thousands
  46. times
  47. views
  48. visualizes
  49. weather
  50. world