How Many Words Do You Need to Know to Watch Seinfeld?

Inspired by the interesting article shared by Mila @Mila Zinoveva in our 2nd LME NAVI meetup. "How Many Words Do You Need to Know to Watch Friends?" (https://herbsusmann.com/2020/08/04/friends/). I wrote a code using R programming language to make data analysis on the corpus of Seinfeld (all episodes from season 1 to 9), and finally I got the result, really interesting! You only need around 1140 words to know about 90% of all words used in Seinfeld!!! Compared with about only 750 words needed for the same purpose to understand Friends, Seinfeld needs more! My code is shared on GitHub: https://github.com/iamxyz/Data-Analysis-for-Scripts-of-Seinfeld

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