2/7/2022

Plato Dataframe: Description

The dataframe presented below contains information on Plato’s dialogues:

  • type = direct/narrated

  • number of pages

  • meanSL = mean sentence length

  • ratio = number of direct/narrated replies per page

  • frequencies for 100 most frequent words

The plot explores the relation of some of these variables to the dialogue type.

Example

df[1:5, 1:15]
##      dialogue pages direct narrated  meanSL     ratio     type         ὁ
## 1 Alcibiades1    33    899        0  8.4269 27.242424   direct  8.018316
## 2     Apology    26      0       73 18.1056  2.807692   direct  6.426529
## 3   Charmides    24     24      359 12.7469 15.958333 narrated  8.338347
## 4    Cratylus    58    774        0 12.6011 13.344828   direct 11.351984
## 5     Critias    16     20        0 28.7791  1.250000   direct 13.030303
##        καί     εἰμί       δέ    οὗτος       ἐγώ    αὐτός        οὐ
## 1 4.764224 1.880359 2.279813 1.851130 1.9095869 1.344505 2.6890101
## 2 5.317324 3.030303 2.024014 2.824471 3.6363636 1.132075 1.6580903
## 3 5.101672 4.151125 2.791481 1.672482 2.9839971 1.287450 1.9973529
## 4 5.160499 2.959206 2.468792 2.301605 1.7331699 1.560410 1.3653589
## 5 5.191919 1.818182 3.838384 1.030303 0.2828283 1.717172 0.2626263

Interrogatives ~ number of replies per page

The verb “to say” ~ dialogue type