CSS pseudo-classes nurture growth in the zen garden of WebR interactive tutorials—along with the help of a little JavaScript and YAML.
Measuring sentiment and comparing qualities of Bluesky posts on Python and R.
tmtyro provides an intuitive interface for text mining using the tidytext format.
As a work exploring computational analysis and creation, Lawrence Durrell’s Revolt of Aphrodite engages anxieties that are increasingly relevant.
The stylo2gg package makes it easy to present stylo data using ggplot2, offering up additional useful options for annotation and understanding.
The wordVectors package from Ben Schmidt and templates from the Women Writers Project have been very useful as I begin doing work with word vector embeddings. To simplify some things and to help with exploring results, I wrote some utility functions, which this post explains how to use.
Building on the previous blog post, this one gets more novels from more countries over more years. Compared to the last corpus, this one is huge, at 13,334 titles. (Yes, sometimes bigger is better.)
This is the perfect time not to start a blog, yet here I am. It feels necessary to start with a preface, with something to explain why I’m doing this, why I’m doing it now, and what I hope will result. In the spirit of the web, here’s a listicle of the Top Six Reasons I’ve Begun a Blog. (You won’t believe number three!)
