Poll: staple cards

skimflux wrote:

These are the 100 most used library cards int the TWD from 2008-2018:

How did you manage to do that? I have been interested in doing some statistics with the TWD but it's all in plain text, isn't it?

Is there any VTES website that does it? I mean sort of what mtgtop8.com does for MtG where you can interact with the info (click the player's name to see his/her other twd, click a card to see other decks where its played, etc.).

Sorry if any of this questions sound stupid, I'm new to the game :/

I parsed the text into an Excel file, doing a lot of manual corrections (hence the mistake in the count of Veil the Legions...)
Check this thread: TWDA Analysis - I've posted a link to the Excel file there.

Just a thought: has anyone tried using corpus tools (mainly used in linguistics and translation studies) to parse the info? They work with text masses. No need to convert them into excel format.

www.lexically.net/wordsmith/

WordSmith Tools is one program we use in UEF. I'm no master with it myself though.

Kraus wrote:

Just a thought: has anyone tried using corpus tools (mainly used in linguistics and translation studies) to parse the info? They work with text masses. No need to convert them into excel format.

www.lexically.net/wordsmith/

WordSmith Tools is one program we use in UEF. I'm no master with it myself though.

The 'grammar' of VtES decks descriptions is mostly alien to any written or spoken language, so I doubt language tools will be of much use - it's not enough to parse the card names, you also have to identify each deck/tournament result, separate crypt/library cards, check card counts, etc.

For example: many card names are present in comments, tournament names, etc. If you do a 'dumb' search for all instances of a specific card name you will get skewed results.