DSC 8: Text-Comparison-Algorithm-Crazy Quinn

Welcome to the GitHub repo with the best version of this Data-Sitter's Club book! You can read it in its intended form [as a the Jupyter notebook](dsc8_text_comparison_algorithm_crazy_quinn.ipynb). It's our biggest book yet, longer than *California Diaries: Dawn 1*, so if GitHub gives you an error message when loading the notebook, reload and it should.... mostly work. It's so long, though, that it may cut off abruptly; for best results, try downloading and running it locally. (New to Jupyter notebooks? [Check out this tutorial](https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/jupyter-notebooks).)

If you'd like to explore the data from this book, you can check out the data folder, which has CSV files for all the distance calculations in the book, along with the tf-idf (most distinctive words) values for the books, and the chapter 2 6-gram values. The viz folder has high-resolution version of all the visualizations.

And if you want just the code for using word count and term frequency vectorizers with cosine and Euclidean distance, you can use the just-the-code notebook... but you really should read the book first.