Enumerations is out!
My new book, Enumerations: Data and Literary Study, is now out with the University of Chicago Press. It’s a long-form exploration of the meaning of quantity in literature, from a study of punctuation...
View ArticleThe Coding Turn in the Humanities
As part of my new book, I have made the code and all derived text data freely available online. The underlying text data has been shared as far as copyright restrictions would allow. As I mentioned in...
View ArticleCan We Be Wrong?
I have a new book out. It’s called “Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data.” The goal of the book is to change the terms of debate surrounding the place of computational...
View ArticleLet the hypothesis testing begin
We believe that a turn toward hypothesis testing will help us become more aware of exactly what we are doing and why we are doing it. I have a new piece out with Matt Erlin in Public Books. In it we...
View ArticleGettin’ into GitHub
One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get stuff off my computer and onto GitHub. I know I’m late to the party. But better late than never. GitHub is an amazing resource where researchers all over the...
View ArticleIntroducing the World Literature Data Collective
Welcome to the next moonshot. Together with a growing and dynamic group of researchers I am extremely proud to announce a new initiative aimed at understanding human storytelling across numerous world...
View ArticleHathi1M: Introducing a Million Page Historical Prose Dataset in English from...
Really pleased to announce the release of a new data set that I’ve been working on with my collaborator Sunyam Bagga. In it we build on the prior work of Ted Underwood and his team to develop parallel...
View ArticleAI and Literature – LLCU 301
If you’re interested in how NLP, AI, machine learning and computational language models are changing how we understand and study storytelling, then come check out my course LLCU 301. Blurb and time...
View ArticleCalling on Citizen Readers!
I am delighted to announce a new lab initiative that is building a citizen science platform to annotate stories. We’re calling it Citizen Readers and the aim of the platform is to invite readers from...
View ArticleTowards a data-driven theory of narrativity
In this new essay out in New Literary History (open access here), we provide a framework for the empirical testing of narrative theory using the process of machine learning and predictive modeling....
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