Sunday, July 31, 2016

A Data Scientist Crunched the Numbers to Find the Most Heavy Metal Word in the English Language

The primary purpose of speaking and writing is to sound as cool as possible at all times, and now a data scientist has given us the specific keywords we need to impress our peers, no matter where we are. In a post on Degenerate State, the scientist took the lyrics off DarkLyrics.com,“the largest metal lyrics archive on the web,” from a database of 222,623 songs by 7,634 bands to analyze the most and least metal words. Comparing the DarkLyrics data with the Brown Corpus-a 1961 collection of English-language documents (no song lyrics) that is “the first of the modern, computer readable, general corpora”-the data scientist found the top 20 most and least metal words. Here's a sampling:

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