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 list of short stories with their index numbers is stored in file Stories.csv
.
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 commandinstall.packages("data.table")
On a (Unix) command line, you can execute Rscript Analyses.R
. This generates all the plots stored in Plots
.
High resolution versions of the plots are stored in the folder Plots
, as PNG files.