What percentage of a text is made up of content words relative to all words? This calculates lexical density in texts. It identify parts of speech, proper nouns, numbers, and function words. Function words is used to filter which words are included or excluded from the lexical density. If you write your own stuff, then […]

It’s 40 minutes to your next meeting. Onscreen is a twenty-page vendor agreement. Looks harmless enough; until you see thirty capitalized terms and references to appendices. Do you want to panic? Or skim? Neither will help. The first because it makes you go all slow-motion, staring at paragraph four while you miss indemnity clause on […]

Yule K is a simple, quick way to estimate amount of vocabulary diversity within any text. There’s even a free Yule K calculator that spits out results immediately! Just type in your text (or frequency data), and you’ll recieve precise Yule K and Yule I estimates. What you may observe is that one book feels […]

Species counts only tell you about number of species present in a community. To get an idea of evenness; how evenly individuals are distributed among species, you can use diversity index calculations that provides a better picture of the community’s health. Calculate diversity indices for free at the Simpson Diversity Index Calculator. It automaticaly interprets […]