This fall, Kate and I have been doing more detailed network analysis work, building on our Demons forays into this method for our Buenos Aires paper. We have been focusing on analyzing The Idiot, but have now also done speech networks for all five of the major mature novels. We read a new book by … Continue reading The Novel without its Hero: More Adventures in Network Analysis
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July 2026 Update: Project re-organization, speech re-encoding, and literary musings
The first few months of working full-time on Computational Dostoevsky as a postdoc have been very busy, and we as a team have managed to get quite a lot done. Read on to see what we’ve been up to. Project re-organization With the help of the wonderful Joey Takeda, we’ve redone much of the structuring … Continue reading July 2026 Update: Project re-organization, speech re-encoding, and literary musings
Demonic Networking in Buenos Aires
We've got a few updates to share from the last few months. Braxton has been working with Joey Takeda, a developer in the SFU Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, on standardizing and systematizing our files and schema. Meanwhile, we have been extending our work on network analysis for a keynote address at the International Dostoevsky Symposium … Continue reading Demonic Networking in Buenos Aires
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
