This dataset is a catalogue of 192 linguistic parameters from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), each representing a distinct typological feature of human languages (e.g., 'Consonant Inventories', 'Vowel Quality Inventories'). Every row is uniquely identified by both an ID (e.g., '1A', '2A') and a Name, meaning there are no duplicates or groupings to aggregate within those columns. The most analytically interesting column is Chapter_ID, which groups these 192 parameters into 144 chapters — indicating that some chapters contain multiple parameters worth investigating. The Chapter_ID distribution is fairly uniform (mean ~84.5, median ~89.5, near-symmetric with slight left skew), suggesting chapters are spread across the full range with no heavy clustering.
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/home/coolhand/html/datavis/data_trove/data/linguistic/wals_parameters.csv 192 rows sample n=192 seed 42 2026-06-22T00:13:54+00:00
Overview
| Source | /home/coolhand/html/datavis/data_trove/data/linguistic/wals_parameters.csv |
| Total rows | 192 |
| Profiled sample | 192 |
| Columns | 5 |
| Generated | 2026-06-22T00:13:54+00:00 |
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| column | kind | null % |
|---|---|---|
| ID | categorical | 0.0% |
| Name | categorical | 0.0% |
| Description | unknown | 0.0% |
| ColumnSpec | unknown | 0.0% |
| Chapter_ID | numeric | 0.0% |
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Model-generated narrative. These are opinions, not facts — the stats below are what saturn measured. Generated by: anthropic:default.
This column is a row identifier, with 192 unique values across 192 rows, zero nulls, and a maximum entropy ratio of 1.0 — every value appears exactly once. The alphanumeric pattern (e.g., '1A', '2A', …, '10A') suggests a structured code system, possibly denoting sequential items with a suffix category. The long_tail alert is a statistical artifact of perfect uniqueness rather than a genuine distributional concern.
This column contains the names of linguistic typology features or chapters, almost certainly from the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) or a similar comparative linguistics dataset. Every one of the 192 rows has a unique name (cardinality 192, entropy_ratio 1.0), meaning this column is a perfect natural-language identifier with no repetition. The top values — 'Consonant Inventories', 'Vowel Quality Inventories', 'Consonant-Vowel Ratio' — confirm these are named phonological/typological feature categories, not free-form text.
The column 'ColumnSpec' was skipped by the profiler, yielding no distributional statistics, cardinality, or type classification beyond 192 non-null rows. Without further evidence it is impossible to characterise the column's content, range, or role. The complete absence of stats alongside the 'skipped' alert is the surprising signal here — likely due to an unsupported or complex data type (e.g. nested struct, binary, or array).
This column contains textual descriptions with 192 non-null rows and a null rate of 0.0%, suggesting complete population coverage. Profiling was skipped entirely (alert: 'skipped'), so no uniqueness, frequency, or length statistics are available — the column's content distribution is opaque. The 'unknown' kind designation indicates the profiler could not classify it, which is common for free-text or mixed-content fields. Downstream treatment should proceed cautiously given the absence of any statistical evidence.
This column is a chapter identifier, likely a foreign or primary key linking rows to one of 144 distinct chapters across a book or structured document. With 192 rows but only 144 unique values, each chapter ID appears on average 1.33 times, indicating some chapters have multiple associated records. The near-uniform distribution (kurtosis –1.26, skew –0.19, IQR spanning almost the full 1–144 range) suggests IDs are assigned sequentially and coverage across chapters is fairly even, though the duplication pattern warrants checking whether it reflects intentional one-to-many relationships or data quality issues.
ID categorical
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| value | count | share |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 2A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 3A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 4A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 5A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 6A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 7A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 8A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 9A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 10A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 10B | 1 | 0.5% |
| 11A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 12A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 13A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 14A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 15A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 16A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 17A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 18A | 1 | 0.5% |
| 19A | 1 | 0.5% |
Top values (rank 1–20)
- 1A — 1
- 2A — 1
- 3A — 1
- 4A — 1
- 5A — 1
- 6A — 1
- 7A — 1
- 8A — 1
- 9A — 1
- 10A — 1
- 10B — 1
- 11A — 1
- 12A — 1
- 13A — 1
- 14A — 1
- 15A — 1
- 16A — 1
- 17A — 1
- 18A — 1
- 19A — 1
Name categorical
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| value | count | share |
|---|---|---|
| Consonant Inventories | 1 | 0.5% |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | 1 | 0.5% |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | 1 | 0.5% |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | 1 | 0.5% |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | 1 | 0.5% |
| Uvular Consonants | 1 | 0.5% |
| Glottalized Consonants | 1 | 0.5% |
| Lateral Consonants | 1 | 0.5% |
| The Velar Nasal | 1 | 0.5% |
| Vowel Nasalization | 1 | 0.5% |
| Nasal Vowels in West Africa | 1 | 0.5% |
| Front Rounded Vowels | 1 | 0.5% |
| Syllable Structure | 1 | 0.5% |
| Tone | 1 | 0.5% |
| Fixed Stress Locations | 1 | 0.5% |
| Weight-Sensitive Stress | 1 | 0.5% |
| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems | 1 | 0.5% |
| Rhythm Types | 1 | 0.5% |
| Absence of Common Consonants | 1 | 0.5% |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | 1 | 0.5% |
Top values (rank 1–20)
- Consonant Inventories — 1
- Vowel Quality Inventories — 1
- Consonant-Vowel Ratio — 1
- Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives — 1
- Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems — 1
- Uvular Consonants — 1
- Glottalized Consonants — 1
- Lateral Consonants — 1
- The Velar Nasal — 1
- Vowel Nasalization — 1
- Nasal Vowels in West Africa — 1
- Front Rounded Vowels — 1
- Syllable Structure — 1
- Tone — 1
- Fixed Stress Locations — 1
- Weight-Sensitive Stress — 1
- Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems — 1
- Rhythm Types — 1
- Absence of Common Consonants — 1
- Presence of Uncommon Consonants — 1
Description unknown
ColumnSpec unknown
Chapter_ID numeric
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| bin | count |
|---|---|
| 1 – 12 | 12 |
| 12 – 23 | 12 |
| 23 – 34 | 12 |
| 34 – 45 | 12 |
| 45 – 56 | 11 |
| 56 – 67 | 12 |
| 67 – 78 | 11 |
| 78 – 89 | 13 |
| 89 – 100 | 17 |
| 100 – 111 | 13 |
| 111 – 122 | 11 |
| 122 – 133 | 12 |
| 133 – 144 | 44 |