This is a continuation of the Dictionary Challenge previously completed. To follow along, you should read that post here. So, we have already downloaded a free Webster dictionary but completely unformatted and unstructured. So, we created a new file in a more structured way that our program can process. The code is in the previous […]
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The Dictionary Challenge-Part 1
Ok, today I’m inflicting a self-imposed challenge…here it is: Get an English dictionary. Then find how many words start with vowels. How many words are there starting with “odd” letters, which I’ll set as: Z, Q, J. Then find the longest word in that dictionary. (Say, we’re going to make a word guessing game) All […]
Burger-Economy Charting! (Excel)
Welcome back! Just saw the latest released data on Big Mac prices world-wide, and the articles showing some simple histograms—and some of them even slapped on a cheesey (pun intended) burger animation to make their hohum horizontal bar charts appear to be more eye-catching. Well, today I’ll show you how to use the same data […]