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 […]

If you want to calculate a text’s lexical richness right now, just input its number of types (unique words) and tokens (total words), then hit “calculate.” This is provided by Herdan’s C calculator. How different is the vocabulary of a given piece of writing? You can’t help but ask question when you read book (or […]