As we approach the end of the first phase of this website, we thought we’d take a brief look at statistics on the 214 prior beanbags themselves.

By the Numbers

• 39,649 words total in the main text
• 185.3 words per beanbag on average
• 389 book citations referencing 353 unique passages across all chapters
• 58% include a quote from the book
• 59% have fine print with methodology notes
• 21% include charts or visualizations

Longest and Shortest

The longest beanbag was #91 on infrared astronomy.

The shortest beanbag was #1 with initial counts.

Most-Used Tags

text-facts (47), word-study (46), science (41), chapter-facts (30), character-facts (28), word-usage (20), astronomy (18), physics (14)

Common Words

In the main text of beanbags, the most common words were: the (1891), of (1146), in (1021), and (868), a (703), to (591), is (546), times (529), tokens (331), sections (325), are (283), for (282), space (268), that (266), as (264), words (257), with (206), it (203), Grace (200), by (196).