Submitted by spicer2 t3_106mzab in dataisbeautiful
spicer2 OP t1_j3hcy3m wrote
Data source: COCA (Corpus of contemporary American English)
Tools used: Excel
Methodology: I'm most interested in applying data viz/data journalism techniques to areas that don't traditionally receive them. I was curious to see if there was a way to measure the relative cultural impact of different parts of the Bible and this is the best I came up with.
I looked up the name of each book in COCA with a wildcard, then scrolled down to find the verse with the highest tally. Obviously it's only a sample of all published media (even if a big one) and doesn't include sermons afaik, but I looking at this, I think it's a pretty good representation of the whole.
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