On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:09:15 -0500, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU> wrote:
>More importantly, I have begun to: 1) analyze my data in new and
>different ways, and 2) provide services beyond simply display.
>Regarding data analysis, I have begun to count/compute things. For
>example, for each document I have counted/computed:
>
> 1. number of words in the text
> 2. Fog score (akin to grade level)
> 3. Kincaid score (again, akin to grade level)
> 4. Flesch score (a readability value between 0 - 100)
> 5. Great Ideas Coefficient (a thing of my own design)
> 6. Big Names Coefficient (another thing of my own design)
>
I guess you know that MARC field 521
<http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/concise/bd521.html> already provides
for much of this? I know, it's MARC so it's junk, but none-the-less reading
level, special audience characteristics, motivation/interest level, etc. is
provided for. It would be nice to have an automated analysis.
Received on Wed Nov 04 2009 - 09:24:22 EST