Now that the year is slowly but steadily arriving at its close, the time for stormy introspections at the cozy fireplace is about to start. In this post, you won't get boring details about very interesting programming projects, nor will you get to know the most outrageous secrets of the live of Isaac Newton and his cat (spoiler: sorry, he never had a cat). Instead, I'll let you, dear reader, participate in this bold and dangerous armchair adventure that I just came up with.
Welcome to the first Journaly Guessing Game!
In this very first installment of the Journaly Guessing Game, it's up to you to guess a certain person's name. I'll give you a couple of hints so that the wittiest of you will be able to discover the person I'm talking about.
Obviously, this person is a Journaly user. If you've been following my own posts during the course of this year and are aware of who belongs to my "inner circle", you'll have a vantage point. If not, then I've said already enough for you to wave through the mud spread around my numerous past posts.
Okay, allow me to be a little bit more accurate.
The person I'm talking about has a very unique choice of words and a soft spot for tabular data representations. You, dear unknown person, are obviously not allowed to participate in this guessing game, but may enjoy silently reading this lovely crafted post of mine and are welcome to comment about wrong punctuation. The precise choice of words is shown here in the form (word frequency, word), which means that user X has written every word in the following list exactly the mentioned number of times in all of their posts since Journaly is online until today.
Here is the list of the first 50 most used words, listed by decreasing frequency (number of occurrences):
366 the
359 I
325 to
245 in
228 and
215 a
192 of
159 that
122 it
118 s
112 is
108 was
101 on
97 you
94 my
89 t
83 this
82 also
80 The
73 about
72 for
59 be
59 book
58 like
56 In
54 English
53 but
53 have
51 read
49 me
48 with
47 other
47 reading
46 Portuguese
46 language
45 are
45 post
43 German
43 as
43 from
43 languages
41 Spanish
41 had
41 so
40 by
40 not
39 because
38 m
37 posts
36 first
Words such as "the", "a", etc. are often considered as so-called stop words, but I've not gone through the programmatic pain of removing them for you. That's part of the fun. The list may look a bit short to be of any significance, but I assure you it's exhaustive enough to find out about... whom?
What a fun idea to use the data for a guessing game! It's interesting how the most used words give away so much about the author :D I'm curious to see who else is going to be featured!
Thank you! Yes, definitely :D. Even with so many stop words you can't stop people from guessing right, I hope. Well, after crawling every publicly available post on Journaly, I have an exact number of 2418 users, so there are plenty of possibilities ;).
No, there's only one. You already gave it away in the desciption before the list :D
Oooh great idea! xD Hehe 🤐
I wonder where those single s, m and t come from. Does the list only include English words or did you also include all the other languages user X might have used?
Thanks 👍! Well, you have it easy, with the Journaly database at your disposal ;). No cheating here. But in this case you definitely don't need the extra technical help :D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iv_UWbK1aI
Hi Linda, yes, I wondered about the same. Those are from words such as don't, I'm and it's. The list includes only words from English posts. You might have read some of them.
Ah ok, that makes perfect sense 👌
What a nice idea!
Thank you, Cloudy!