This is just a silly little project to count all the occurrences of rude words in all the available Private Eye crossword puzzle clues and then make a word cloud out of the data.
I am reusing some serverless functions that I created for a different purpose. To prepare the word cloud data, I do the following:
- I grab a list of all the available puzzles using list-puzzles
- I then parse each puzzle using parse-puzzle
- I store each parsed puzzle in a MongoDB database
- I then search all the clues in all the puzzles for occurrences of words in badwords
- Finally, I save the list of words & counts in a JSON file
I then have a little React app that renders the word cloud using @visx/wordcloud.
Why is it called eye-say ? It's a play on the expression, "I say!", but following the Private Eye
pattern of naming things Eye + Something e.g. EyePlayer and then converted to follow normal package name conventions:
The "name" field contains your package's name, and must be lowercase and one word, and may contain hyphens and underscores.
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