/infiniteJest

Mapping patterns in Infinite Jest.

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Infinite Jest

  • readme.md
  • maintainer: Ciera Martinez @iamciera
  • license: GNU GPL v2.0

Goals

There are two overarching goals for the project:

  1. Learn Python
  2. Analyze and visualize text patterns in the book Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

This will be ongoing and most likely never be finished because the goals can never fully be accomplished.

Directories

  1. data - Data files organized by type. Either made directly from text or scraped from the internet
  2. notes - contain .md files that act as notebook for development for project.
  3. r - r scripts
  4. py - python scripts

Other

  • Date: March 25, 2014
  • Language Versions: R: R 3.0.2 GUI 1.62 Snow Leopard build (6558)
  • Python: Python 2.7.5, D3: http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js

Sample

This a prototype plot for displaying character distribution. Color signifies chapter.

plot

Also, the time it takes for reading the book with an average reading speed of 200 words per minute.

readingplot