In my second Harry Plotter blog (22-Aug-2017), I wrote:
I would like to demonstrate how regular expressions can be used to retrieve (sub)strings that follow a specific format. We could use regex to examine, for instance, when, and by whom, which magical spells are cast.
Well, Prusinowskik (real name unknown) beat me to it, and how! S/He formed a comprehensive list of all spells found in the Harry Potter saga (see below), and categorized these into “spells“, “charms“, and “curses“, and into “popular“, “dueling” and “unforgivable” purposes. Next, Prusinowskik built an interactive Shiny application with lovely JavaScript graphs (package: rCharts) for us to discover precisely when during the saga which spells are cast (see also below). Moreover, the analysis was repeated for both the books and the movies.
Truly excellent work Prusinowskik! The Shiny app can be found here.
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