Summarizing book names and word count data

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Let us look at data summarization using count data.

Here are links to the topic series of representing and processing data.

Summarizing book names and word count data (this page)
Ways to represent table data

R examples:

Python examples:

JavaScript and D3 examples:

JavaScript: SVG bar chart using D3

Julia examples:

Julia: Bar chart from JSON data using StatsPlots

... more to be added ...

The goals in this series include the following.

Look at ways of representing nominal, ordinal, and integer data.
Look at ways of loading the data.
Look at ways of summarizing the data.
Look at ways of visualizing the data.

Along the way, trade-offs and variations will be covered and/or mentioned, as there are many ways to do what is being done.

Directions on more involved data analysis will be mentioned as needed.

The data represents the number of times a letter appears in a corpus of English text. For the present purposes, the corpus details are not needed. A future topic will look at how to get summarized data such as this table from an actual corpus of text. A summary such as this has applications in many fields.

NLP (Natural Language Processing) (in text analysis, involving letters, bi-grams, tri-grams, etc.)
Security (in understanding letter substitution ciphers and code-breaking of those ciphers)

Here is the data in a textual table form.

Letter	Count
a	59900
b	11302
c	14311
d	34483
e	95247
f	17852
g	13528
h	62509
i	46347
j	2321
k	4449
l	25939
m	19154
n	51311
o	54741
p	9918
q	183
r	37468
s	44630
t	72396
u	20651
v	7458
w	18376
x	376
y	14814
z	234

For the present purposes, we are not concerned about how this data was summarized from the (copies of) the original text.

Eventually, alternative language character sets will replace English text to show how non-English characters can be processed in various data analysis and visualization systems.

There are many notations for tables of data. Here is a quick summary.

Database	table	records	fields
Spreadsheet	sheet	rows	columns

... more to be added ...