Great article on Franco Moretti, a Stanford English professor, is championing computational linguistics, data mining, computer modeling, and network theory to take a data-centric approach to novels, which he graphs, maps, and charts. Using IBM’s Visual Communications Lab he is turning books into a series of word clouds. He is also identifying the best titles and discovered a correlation between shorter titles and the growth of the book publishing industry. (Moretti theorizes that more concise titles made books easier to promote in a crowded marketplace.)
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