Letter Cloud and Prediction

A shiny app predicts your love of letters

Z Hao
Scientist

What do you know about your love of letters?

  1. Most of us know what words are our favorite
    • good
    • chocolate
    • love
    • owesome
  2. And we know letters form words
  3. But our favorite letters are hidden somewhere in our brain.
  4. Let's find them out with this app!

Step 1

Give me a list of words that you like:

For example:

favorite.words <- c("Good", "Luck", "Owesome", "Serious", "Play", "Fun", "Fine", "Chocolate")

Then, type them out:

paste(favorite.words, collapse = " ")

## [1] "Good Luck Owesome Serious Play Fun Fine Chocolate"

Step 2

You then give the sentence to the Letter Cloud app.
It first chops the words into letters:

unlist(strsplit(toupper(favorite.words), NULL))

##  [1] "G" "O" "O" "D" "L" "U" "C" "K" "O" "W" "E" "S" "O" "M" "E" "S" "E"
## [18] "R" "I" "O" "U" "S" "P" "L" "A" "Y" "F" "U" "N" "F" "I" "N" "E" "C"
## [35] "H" "O" "C" "O" "L" "A" "T" "E"

Then create a frequency table from the letters:

## 
## A C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U W Y 
## 2 3 1 5 2 1 1 2 1 3 1 2 7 1 1 3 1 3 1 1

Step 3

Finally, the letters are sorted and filtered:

## O E C L S U A F I N D G H K M P R T W Y 
## 7 5 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Now we know what your favorite letters are. In this example, it is "O".

A quick map of your brain of letters - Letter Cloud