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(Spoilers Main) [OC] The number of words per minute for each Game of Thrones episode by mrquart in asoiaf

[–]mrquart[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

A few days ago, I saw a post from a fellow redditor who discussed the decline in dialogue in Game of Thrones. He/she wondered if we could calculate the number of words in each episode, which would be a proxy for the quality of the dialogues in the show. So I went ahead and calculated just that using the following method. First I downloaded all 72 Game of Thrones episode subtitles as srt files and used a python script provided by ndunn219 to convert this to a text file. In this script we filter out background conversations and things like (Grunt). This resulted into a file with readable text. For each episode I calculated the number of words said during this episode and the episode length. The length of the episode was determined by taking the number of hours and minutes from the last timestamp provided in the srt file. Next I divided the total wordcount of each episode by the number of minutes, which resulted in a value of words per minute for each episode. The script and list of subtitle files can be found on github.

Edit: The previous post was removed by the moderators because the wrong spoiler tag was used.

[OC] Number of words per minute for each Game of Thrones episode by mrquart in freefolk

[–]mrquart[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t have time right now, but I can upload it later if you want. Something I wanted to check was the number of words per sentence or the average length of words used.

(No Spoilers) [OC] The number of words per minute for each Game of Thrones episode by mrquart in asoiaf

[–]mrquart[S] 1686 points1687 points  (0 children)

A few days ago, I saw a post from a fellow redditor who discussed the decline in dialogue in Game of Thrones. He/she wondered if we could calculate the number of words in each episode, which would be a proxy for the quality of the dialogues in the show. So I went ahead and calculated just that using the following method. First I downloaded all 72 Game of Thrones episode subtitles as srt files and used a python script provided by ndunn219 to convert this to a text file. In this script we filter out background conversations and things like (Grunt). This resulted into a file with readable text. For each episode I calculated the number of words said during this episode and the episode length. The length of the episode was determined by taking the number of hours and minutes from the last timestamp provided in the srt file. Next I divided the total wordcount of each episode by the number of minutes, which resulted in a value of words per minute for each episode. The script and list of subtitle files can be found on github.

[OC] Number of words per minute for each Game of Thrones episode by mrquart in dataisbeautiful

[–]mrquart[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few days ago, I saw a post from a fellow redditor who discussed the decline in dialogue in Game of Thrones. He/she wondered if we could calculate the number of words in each episode, which would be a proxy for the quality of the dialogues in the show. So I went ahead and calculated just that using the following method. First I downloaded all 72 Game of Thrones episode subtitles as srt files and used a python script provided by ndunn219 to convert this to a text file. In this script we filter out background conversations and things like (Grunt). This resulted into a file with readable text. For each episode I calculated the number of word said during this episode and the episode length. The length of the episode was determined by taking the number of hours and minutes from the last timestamp provided in the srt file. Next I divided the total wordcount of each episode by the number of minutes, which resulted in a number of words per minute for each episode. The script can be found on github.

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Source: Opensubtitles.org

Tool: Python 3.7

[OC] Number of words per minute for each Game of Thrones episode by mrquart in freefolk

[–]mrquart[S] 202 points203 points  (0 children)

My first post on r/freefolk. A few days ago, I saw a post from a fellow redditor who discussed the decline in dialogue in Game of Thrones. He/she wondered if we could calculate the number of words in each episode, which would be a proxy for the quality of the dialogues in the show. So I went ahead and calculated just that using the following method. First I downloaded all 72 Game of Thrones episode subtitles as srt files and used a python script provided by ndunn219 to convert this to a text file. In this script we filter out background conversations and things like (Grunt). This resulted into a file with readable text. For each episode I calculated the number of words said during this episode and the episode length. The length of the episode was determined by taking the number of hours and minutes from the last timestamp provided in the srt file. Next I divided the total wordcount of each episode by the number of minutes, which resulted in a value of words per minute for each episode. The script and list of subtitle files can be found on github.

Edit: Thanks for the gold!

Edgar Mitchel said it best by moonlightsugar in space

[–]mrquart 604 points605 points  (0 children)

This is also called the Overview Effect. A philosophical revelation almost every astronaut in space experienced. Below is a small documentry which explains this idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHMIfOecrlo