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The idea is to analyze and understand the contribution of all the Lead Characters ofF.R.I.E.N.D.S TV series (1994-2004) in-terms of number of dialogues spoken by them.

Lead Characters/The FRIENDS in this TV series areChandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Rachel andRoss.

Data is scraped from episodetranscipts -html files. These transcripts can be downloaded frommy GitHub repo.

R code to extract data and create plots ishere.

Once you extract andtidy the data, it looks like this...

> dialogues# A tibble: 227 × 8   Episode_Number CHANDLER  JOEY MONICA PHOEBE RACHEL  ROSS season            <int>    <int> <int>  <int>  <int>  <int> <int>  <chr>1               1       76    80    141     38     94    94     012               2       32    17     56     28     75   126     013               3       72    56    103     76     52    66     014               4       64    47     94     62     86    78     015               5       70    72     66     46     74    80     016               6      115    60     68     20     30    43     017               7       49    54     46     49     86   106     018               8       74    22     68     32     36    96     019               9       52    64     96     40     70    71     0110             10       61    38     46     97     36    58     01# ... with 217 more rows

From the plot below, you can see the Number of dialogues(#dialogues) spoken in allTen Seasons by each Lead-Character.

Overall, the writers maintained#dialogues by all characters to be close to each other's, withRachel delivering the highest(15,707) andPhoebe the least*(12,443).Chandler(14,091),Joey(13,865)* &Monica*(14,032)* are in the same league andRachel &Ross*(15174)* are in the other. I guess you can expect that#dialogues forPhoebe are the least. Phoebs is not the least favourite character though! :)

Season 6 has thehighest#dialogues*(10,897)* out of all Ten seasons. And season 5(10,738), season 6 & season 7*(10,798)* have almost same#dialogues. Maybe the writers created relatively more content towards middle of the series.

And also it is obvious that something went wrong while extracting data forSeason 2, as#dialogues for this season*(1,416)* are pretty less compared with the rest. Thescript has to be modified to extract accurate data for this season. And it's also worth to check the same forSeason 10 as well, because#dialogues for this season(4,392) doesn't compare well with the others.

From the plot below, you can see thePercentage of dialogues spoken by each characer in each Season.

Even from this plot it's clear that Phoebe has the least#dialogues in the series.

The above plots show clear contribution of all the Lead-Charactersindividually towards each season.And even from these plots, it's clear that more work might be needed to extract data fromSeasons 2 & 10.