For all you number lovers out there, check out this fantastic interactive article that lets readers create their own digital heart using algebra. Here’s a sample: Like many geometric figures,…
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For years now, I have occasionally seen 19th century data visualizations attributed to W.E.B. Du Bois. Always struck by them for their content (data about “the African diaspora in America“)…
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A few years ago, on a visit to the Tolkien exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum, I was fascinated to see process documents related to Lord of the Rings…
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Here on Plotting Plots, I try to make the case that computationality and the humanities go hand in hand. Not just for literature, but in music too. While watching the…
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First-time readers of Paradise Lost are often surprised by how relatable Milton’s Satan is. Seriously, it is jarring to realize how vehemently one can find oneself nodding along in agreement–with…
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BardBots is a project in which students are introduced to key concepts in computational thinking via an unlikely combination: Shakespeare and robots. I believe that the distance between the humanities,…
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Edgar Allan Poe is a mainstay of American literary culture, particularly in classrooms and book clubs as Halloween nears. (The seeming infinite appeal of The Simpsons tribute episode helps as…
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I burned the midnight oil this weekend to make the these 11 new literary data sets available. And here you go! If you are teaching any of these books, reading…
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As I read Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, I am increasingly interested in the stories two main protagonists Alice and Eileen. So, I created the scatterplot…
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I’ll make this brief. I am so excited to be starting Sally Rooney’s latest novel Beautiful World, Where Are You that I express tracked creating the literary data for it.…