Adventures in Stylometry!

In May we took a class called “Computational Text Analysis with Stylometry and R” at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al. It was run by the Krakow-based Computational Stylistics Group. Stylometry is a method that can determine an author's “style” through counting word frequencies. Recently, in the news, it has been … Continue reading Adventures in Stylometry!

Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis

After finishing encoding our corpus at the end of last year, we’ve been working on speech network analysis. Network analysis is a method that creates a visualization of connections between elements such as characters, authors, or places within a given dataset. It’s a great method for analyzing patterns in texts like characters’ relationships to one … Continue reading Reencoding Crime and Punishment for Network Analysis