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This website contains spoilers for Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.
It is recommended you read the book before exploring this site.

“Get comfortable. I have a lot of science to explain.”
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Textual and scientific analysis of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary

text-facts 41 word-study 37 science 30 chapter-facts 27 character-facts 27 word-usage 20 astronomy 13 physics 11 chemistry 9 verbs 9 feature-launch 6 astrobiology 6 astrophage 6 pop-culture 5 show more... particles 5 speech 5 contractions 5 rocky 4 spectroscopy 3 ryland-grace 3 sections 3 eva-stratt 3 exoplanets 3 atmosphere 3 nouns 3 astronauts 3 trailer 3 biology 3 petrova-line 2 eridian-numbers 2 star-trek 2 40-eridani 2 venus 2 determiners 2 punctuation 2 adjectives 2 dimitri-komorov 2 tau-ceti 2 dr-lokken 2 beatles 2 quotes 2 martin-dubois 2 climate 2 jwst 1 gravity 1 marissa 1 unicode 1 grace-kids 1 sandra-elias 1 dr-browne 1 prepositions 1 minister-voigt 1 ms-xi 1 justice-spencer 1 ursula-k-le-guin 1 music 1 bob-redell 1 chinese 1 russian 1 ryan-gosling 1 similes 1 easton 1 francois-leclerc 1 invented-words 1 dr-lamai 1 psychology 1 annie-shapiro 1 possessives 1 olesya-ilyukhina 1 yao-li-jie 1 antarctica 1 geography 1 steve-hatch 1 pronouns 1 genetics 1

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Here’s a visualization of the relative frequency of determiners across all sections and chapters of the book.

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Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).

The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.

The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that are tagged as DET (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).

Part-of-speech tagging was done with spaCy. The tagging uses Universal POS tags.