stanford lit lab

turns out that approximately 2500 of the 7000 titles we analyzed didn't actually have books attached. our bad!

breaking: we made a graph of novels and when they were written, and the first novel wasn't even written by a white person!

we're thrilled to announce our new project, jane air, a perfect AI representation of emily bronte's classic protagonist.

our latest algorithm can measure the loudness of a novel to the nearest tenth of a decibel!

not sure what to use that sweet new windows 95 your hip uncle got you for? why not try #digitalhumanities ?

mark hewitt is the director of lit lab. his favorite elder scrolls game is oblivion. happy birthday mark!

according to our computer models, there are at least 54 different books in the animorphs series. #digitalhumanities

did you know that the animorphs series is the only body of literature to ever use angle brackets for quotations? #literaryhistory

great expectations as a character relationship map looks just like the cobwebs in miss havisham's house. well played, charles!

how many words did old books have? how many words do new books have? what about books in the middle?

this feed is dedicated to franco moretti, who is not yet dead but is now more computer than human

did you know that the german novel was more rainy in 1952 than any other year? #literarymeteorology

we mapped the average color of colors mentioned in novels by year from 1800 to 2000. the results are fascinating!

the bee movie but every time they say bee we use a computer to count how many times they say bee in the bee movie