Chapter 3 - Science vs Intermediary

Common words

Introduction

In this part we are are going to compare the single words which appear in both lists, Pubmed’s and New York Times’, of the most frequent words, in order to observe if there are important similarities in the two voices.

Protocol

In simple terms - Protocol

The single words in common between The New York Times and Pubmed are indentified. In order to level out the two texts (because Pubmed is shorter than The New York Times), it’s calculated the density of each word on the entire texts of both sites, based on Keyword Density Analyzer.

How to read it

The chart shows only the single words repeated in The New York Times and in Pubmed. The two different sources are marked with different colors and moving the mouse over a specific word it will be more evident the data related to it with the labels of its density’s percentage.

Findings

The words that are in common are not specific at all, speaking about milk and health they all are very general and more used by The New York Times.

This means that they have in common not so much, and looking at the word most one and the other they are different as well. Food is more present in the news site and children is the word more present in the papers site.

Data

Timestamp: 12/12/2015

Data source: PubMed, The New York Times

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