BS Analyzer

So lately I have been going through my backlog of old projects and unfinished school work for potential additions to my works page. This project was from an old programming class and didn’t quite make the cut. However, it is pretty interesting and shows a fun simple script I wrote using Processing. The program pulls text from online sources then divides and parses the words, more or less a coin machine for academic papers. My original idea came after listening to some lectures and noticing that academic speak is very often filled with technical jargon and in-speak used over and over again. In practice the program ending up performing like a very advanced word counter. Running your own paper through the algorithm might give you an idea of which phrases you are overusing. Each word is noted, sorted into alphabetical order, then counted for frequency. There are also controls to account for plural forms of the same word and closely connected words. It also sorts out common articles like, “the“.