💻 Activity 4.3: Analyzing Text#
A common tasks for a computer program is to analyze text for structural characteristics. This can be used to determine readability. We have provided you with a text document from a news article. Build a set of functions, and use the map function to count
The number of words
The average word length
The average number of words per sentence
As a bonus plot a histogram of the word length. Use the matplotlib function
hist
import requests
response = requests.get('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DrexelEngineering/ENGR131_W2023/main/jupyterbook/week4/lecture4/assets/article.txt')
article = response.text
Print the article to read it
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Write a function that counts the number of strings split by a substring.
Note: for map to work you need to set a default string to split by
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Write a function that counts the length of a string
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Write your function that does all of the computation and then prints the results
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Code to make a histogram of the word length
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