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Repository for material related to article "The Explorative Value of Computational Methods: Rereading the American Short Story"

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The Explorative Value of Computational Methods: Rereading the American Short Story

Stephanie Siewert and Nils Reiter

This repository contains material used in the article:

Stephanie Siewert, Nils Reiter. The Explorative Value of Computational Methods: Rereading the American Short Story. American Studies, 63(2), 2018.

Three types of data are offered:

The story list

The list of short stories with their index numbers is stored in file Stories.csv.

The code

The R code used to make the analyses is given in file Analyses.R. To execute it, you'll need

  • An installation of the programming language R.
  • The package data.table. This can be installed from within R with the command install.packages("data.table")

On a (Unix) command line, you can execute Rscript Analyses.R. This generates all the plots stored in Plots.

The plots

High resolution versions of the plots are stored in the folder Plots, as PNG files.