Re: [Pan-users] Statistical word analysis?

[Jason Wojciechowski]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:27:48AM -0400, gaw zay wrote:

> On 11 Apr 2002, Aristotle wrote:
> 
> > I think an AWESOME feature for Pan would be statistical analysis - say
> > word or phrase frequency according to various criteria - say tracking
> > the use of the word 'Islam' across all subscribed and particular groups.
> >
> > I use Pan for political and social research (a bit like listening to
> > talk back radio except more versatile) - a feature like this would
> > really be the icing on an already very good cake.
> 
> I'd say this is more a job for google. oh well.

Or at the very least a job for a tool that specifically does analysis of
these things.  Dropping something like this in Pan for the ~10 people
who might ever use it seems a waste of the developers time and efforts.

Remember UNIX - specific tool for a specific job.

-Jason

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