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#28 ++

In the 86 sections in Space, 16.93% of tokens are in direct speech. There are between 0 and 3 speakers in each section (with a mean of 1.57, a median of 2.0, and a standard deviation of 0.69)

8 of the sections have 0 speakers:
Section 5 (01.125–159),
Section 15 (03.262–272),
Section 17 (04.024–032),
Section 35 (08.193–209),
Section 42 (10.181–184),
Section 90 (24.051–055),
Section 102 (26.038–063),
Section 109 (29.001–027).

2 of the sections have 3 speakers:
Section 46 (12.001–074),
Section 48 (12.142–253)

The number of tokens spoken by each character in the Space sections are:

Grace: 13,089 (57.66%)
Rocky: 9,071 (39.96%)
Computer: 539 (2.37%)

In the 30 sections on Earth, 59.66% of tokens are in direct speech. There are between 0 and 11 speakers in each section (with a mean of 4.10, a median of 4.0, and a standard deviation of 2.57)

Only 1 of the sections has no direct speech : Section 4 (01.104–124).

And only 1 of the sections has the maximum 11 speakers: Section 25 (05.128–217).

The number of tokens spoken by the top ten characters in the Earth sections are:

Grace: 11,521 (33.78%)
Stratt: 10,178 (29.84%)
Dr. Lokken: 2,406 (7.05%)
Steve Hatch: 1,320 (3.87%)
Leclerc: 1,312 (3.85%)
Bob Redell: 1,300 (3.81%)
Dimitri: 1,172 (3.44%)
DuBois: 816 (2.39%)
Dr. Browne: 425 (1.25%)
Dr. Lamai: 405 (1.19%)

A section break is marked by an extra blank line or a horizontal rule. It indicates a jump in time or a switch to another timeline. By “Space” sections we mean sections not on Earth.

Token counts are based on tokenization by spaCy and so include punctuation separately.

Speaker identification was done manually.