Ted Underwood's Projects
Code and data used for page-level mapping of literary genres beyond 1923.
Research on information-theoretic asymmetries in literary history.
Was the avant-garde really ahead of its time?
A presentation at MLA 2020 in Seattle, "No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: Toward a Distant Reading of Reception."
Code and data to support "Bestsellers and Critical Favorites 1850-1949," a paper at CA2017.
Metadata and code for research on biographies, and especially contrasting biographical "character" to fiction.
R scripts that browse the results of LDA
Measuring the scale and significance of changes *in the pace of change* in an auto-correlated multivariate time series.
Data and code for analyzing language associated with fictional characters.
An exploratory project on representations of class (and age) in fiction.
Python scripts for collating HathiTrust page files.
Scripts that clean up OCR and munge Hathi metadata.
Files for eMOP.
Project on the history of genre.
An experiment replicating part of "Why Literary Time is Measured in Minutes" with GPT-4.
Code for Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes.
Exploring textual and social measures of distance between genres.
Code and documentation associated with "Understanding Genre in a Collection of a Million Volumes"
Metadata for English-language fiction and poetry beyond 1923 in HathiTrust Digital Library.
Data and code to support Distant Horizons (University of Chicago Press, 2019).
IS 417, Data Science in the Humanities.
Code and data to support a collaboration between Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood.
A Java package that does basic LDA, without hyperparameter optimization. Folder settings are local. Ymmv.
Library of Python utility modules.
Code and data to support "Machine Learning and Human Perspective."
A temporary workspace for novelTM metadata reviewed and analyzed in summer 2018.