Homer is a Python package that can help make your text more clear, simple and useful for the reader.<p>It provides information on an overall text as well as on individual paragraphs. It gives insights into readability, length of paragraphs, length of sentences, average sentences per paragraph, average words in a sentence, etc. It is based on work by Pinker and another research study [1, 2].<p>This software package grew out of a personal need. Since I am not a native English speaker but am interested in writing. I write OpEds and a blog. So I designed and have been using Homer to improve my writing. I hope others will find it useful. I am aware of other tools (such as ProseLint) but I built this thinking this would help me improve my Python. :) Also, over time I plan on improving this.<p>References:<p>1- Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style:<p>2- <a href="https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet9.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet9.pdf</a>
<a href="https://github.com/amperser/proselint" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/amperser/proselint</a> is also very nice.
Very cool. Wonder if this could be tailored to analyze financial disclosures (10-Ks and 10-Qs) to rank management teams on their abilities to describe their company succinctly and appropriately convey messages on financial results to shareholders and the investment community.<p>It's a pet idea of mine that I just haven't had time to play with. Would need to adjust for size of the company and industry, at a minimum...
Really cool. It would be super useful to have this in other languages as well, french in my case. This would be a useful addition to a grammar checker I am currently developing.