Text as Data

Today we'll be working with text data from several classic books available through Project Gutenberg:

If we click on one of the titles above we, we can take a look at the raw text. For example, if we click Don Quixote, we get something that looks like this:

Pick your favorite, and head over to Jason Davies' Word Cloud Generator. Paste the text of the first chapter or so into the box, and see what shakes out!