Top Word Charts
Frequency of words in the headlines of British news sites.
Select the start and end date of the period and the number of top words you want to see.
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Frequency of words in the headlines of British news sites.
Select the start and end date of the period and up to three words that you want to see
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FireDruid scrapes the front-page headlines of the 15 most popular British news sites once every hour (at half past).
The charts show the frequency of words in these headlines after removing common words like "the", "she", "is", etc.
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Main packages used: Flask, SQLite, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, Chart.js
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Excluded Words
The following words are common and their frequencies don't provide insight, therefore they are removed before calculating word frequencies.
000, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, a, about, after, all, also, am, an, and, any, are, as, at, back, bbc, be, because, been, best, but, by, call, can, city, claim, come, could, day, did, discover, do, does, done, during, even, ever, every, everything, first, for, from, gave, get, give, givenday, gives, go, good, got, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, hit, home, how, i, if, in, into, is, it, its, just, know, latest, life, like, live, look, make, man, me, month, more, most, mum, my, need, new, news, newsletter, next, no, not, now, of, off, on, one, only, or, other, our, out, over, people, plan, say, says, see, set, she, should, show, so, some, star, street, subscribe, take, taking, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, think, this, time, to, top, two, up, us, use, want, was, way, we, week, weekday, well, were, what, when, which, who, why, will, with, woman, work, world, would, year, you, your