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Art Data Analysis: A Very Data Christmas

http://www.r-bloggers.com/a-very-data-christmas/

I thought it would be fun to explore
the lyrics of Christmas carols, and see how the word usage in these
songs compares with today’s lexicon. To do so I needed two things:
first, Christmas carol texts; and second, a way to compare the usage of
words in those songs to that of today.

A simple Google search for Christmas carol lyrics yielded this site, which I downloaded into a single text file. Then, I used the R tm package to create a clean word corpus from this text, stripping out English stopwords, punctuation and case. This left me with 755 words to explore...