Big Data in Little Wordle

A Large-Scale Data Analysis of ~70 Million Games of Wordle

barrysmyth
Towards Data Science
39 min readJun 1, 2022

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Photo by Nils Huenerfuerst on Unsplash

Recently I have been exploring various aspects of the popular word-game Wordle [62–67], which took the Internet by storm in January and February 2022 [12]. As I came to appreciate some of the many data science questions being asked about it, I decided to use Wordle as a case-study project for my 3rd year, undergraduate…

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Professor of Computer Science at University College Dublin. Focus on AI/ML and data science with applications in e-commerce, media, and health.