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Authors tend to focus on different body parts for men and women, and the descriptions used for each body part also vary. For The Pudding, Erin Davis parsed a couple thousand books to see the scale of the skews.
Tags: body, Erin Davis, gender, Liana Sposto, literature, Pudding, words
Posted by in Body, Erin Davis, gender, Infographics, Liana Sposto, literature, Pudding, words
What do you get if you take famous literary works, strip out all the words, and only look at the punctuation? Between the Words by Nicholas Rougeux:
Between the Words is an exploration of visual rhythm of punctuation in well-known literary works. All letters, numbers, spaces, and line breaks were removed from entire texts of classic stories like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Moby Dick, and Pride and Prejudice—leaving only the punctuation in one continuous line of symbols in the order they appear in texts.
[via @giorgialupi]
Tags: literature, punctuation
Posted by in Data Art, literature, punctuation
Ever wanted to follow in the footsteps of a famous writer or literary character in their journey across the country? Well now you can. Richard Kreitner for Atlas Obscura hand-cataloged the road trips — more than 1,500 entries — from twelve works of literature and Steven Melendez mapped the paths.
The above map is the result of a painstaking and admittedly quixotic effort to catalog the country as it has been described in the American road-tripping literature. It includes every place-name reference in 12 books about cross-country travel, from Mark Twain's Roughing It (1872) to Cheryl Strayed's Wild (2012), and maps the authors' routes on top of one another. You can track an individual writer’s descriptions of the landscape as they traveled across it, or you can zoom in to see how different authors have written about the same place at different times.
Pair this with the BreweryMap, which tells you nearby breweries during a road trip, and you've got yourself an adventure.
Happy travels.
Tags: history, literature, road trip
Posted by in history, literature, Mapping, road trip
As a demonstration of efforts in estimating happiness from language, Hedonometer charts emotion over time for literary classics. The above is the collection of charts for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
I wish I could say this meant something to me, but comparative literature in high school was never my strong suit. From a totally superficial point of view though, the chart in the top left shows happiness metrics — based on the research of Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth — through the entirety of the book. The chart on the right shows a comparison of book sections, which you can select in the first chart.
Posted by in Computational Story Lab, happiness, literature, statistics