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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…

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.…

From afar, that scene from Dead Poets Society where students use a line graph to analyze a poem might look like Plotting Plots. It’s not. Not at all.

One of the advantages of using computational methods to analyze literature is that you can see patterns in a book that you simply couldn’t easily see otherwise. That’s true for…

Several years ago, I interviewed for a professorship at Trinity College in Dublin. The position focused on K-12 computer science education. Ireland, like many countries, was ramping up its efforts…