Create a data dictionary report with R and pointblank. To document a data set with pointblank in R, you start by creating a pointblank informant object with the create_informant() function.. Let ...

When Jez Burrows reads example sentences in dictionaries, he feels inspired. He has started a blog where he posts short stories made up entirely of sentences from the New Oxford American Dictionary.

“Dictionary Stories” began as a blog compiling the NOAD’s zaniest example sentences — which Burrows then mashes up into sometimes-silly, sometimes-sad and always-interesting pieces of ...