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Vocabulary (personality)

Everybody and everything has a vocabulary. Users, actions, websites, ads, memes, etc. This tool can help you track and assess relevance between vocabularies and ensure your content will be interesting for your users. It’s super fast, tiny, agnostic and runs on the client.

Most humans and therefore most documents and websites have limited vocabularies, usually around 20,000 words and rarely more than 50,000 words. Vocabularies are typically much smaller than the documents they represent. A Vocabulary() is simply a hash table of all the words you’ve given it and how many times it’s seen the same word. In this way, every word is ranked by the frequency and size of the word. Like any json object, you can store a vocabulary anyway you like. Given their small size, I cache them locally in window.localStorage and can store them permanently in a NoSql db if desired. Blockchain too? (need help) You really only need to store a user’s vocabulary as they click around your site, return, etc. A page’s vocabulary should be created dynamically by the client and independently of the CMS, etc. I suppose you could calculate and cache on the server too, but that would only make sense if your page has an enormous number of words on the page.

Vocabulary() can run on the server (Node) or the client (Javascript). It does not depend on jQuery or any other libraries, but is compatible of course.

Usage

It’s just a tiny amount of javascript, so you can include it in the browser.

<script src="Vocabulary.js"></script>

or on the server

const Vocabulary = require('Vocabulary.js');

npm - node package manager

https://www.npmjs.com/package/vocabulary-js

npm install vocabulary-js

User Stories

As a user, I want to be “heard” and “known” as I click around your site(s), so that when your sight suggests other products, stories or opportunities they will be relevant to me and my demonstrated interests.

let userVocabulary = new Vocabulary();
userVocabulary.add("all the words on the page");
button.click(() => userVocabulary.add("some words associated with this button"));

As a programmer, I want to maintain a user’s vocabulary and then present the user with relevant options in the dynamic components on the site.

let preferences = usersVocabulary.order("shoes hats underwear");
switch(preferences[0]) {
  case "shoes":
    displayShoes();
    break;
  case "hats":
    displayHats();
    break;
  case "underwear":
    displayUnderwear();
    break;
}

Class Definition

class Vocabulary {
    constructor(text){} // add initial words to my vocabulary
    add(text){} // add more words to my vocabulary, parse, etc.
    addString(word, count){} // add one word or phrase without parsing
    // count defaults to 1, unless you want to "seed" a word with a high count
    addVocabulary(that){} // combine two vocabularies
    rank(word){} // calculate the rank of a word being used in the vocabulary
    order(words){} // given a list of words, sort them in order of rank 
    relevance(that){} // calculate how relevant "that" vocabulary is to me
}

Automated Tests - 100% code coverage

Run node tests

You’ll need to install npm, node, and mocha to run these tests in a terminal https://www.npmjs.com/package/mocha

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Please add unit tests to tests.js for any new functions.

To do’s

I’d love to link to your website. If you’ve used this tool on your site or in your project and want me to list it here, please reach out.
Create a wordpress plugin
Create a chrome plugin so that savvy users can share their vocabulary with sites that can leverage it.
Imagine a personal pagerank that can extend search results (plugin). I’m thinking a recent and universal vocabulary and perhaps custom vocabularies based on collections of websites, perhaps in bookmarks, etc.
Store vocabularies on a blockchain (secure) for personal use and perhaps sharing/selling while navigating the web.
Add AI vs the relatively simple math I’m using now to determine relevance between two large vocabularies for example
what else?

Dependencies

None. Let’s keep it that way please.

ISC License

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Author

Hire me! ChadSteele.com

Credits

Image credit Wordle

Websites

I’d love to link to your website. If you’ve used this tool on your site and want me to list it here, please reach out.

Vocabulary

Everybody has a vocabulary. Users, websites, ads, memes, etc. This tool can help you track and assess relevance between vocabularies and ensure your content will be interesting for your users. It's super fast, tiny, agnostic and runs on the client.