About PlottingPlots

Ever since I was a high school English teacher, the worlds of technology and literature didn’t seem as far apart as everyone said. I used inject my classroom with digital projects, like recording a critical literary rap album, creating a remix of presidential foreign policy speeches (with my history teaching colleague), and filming modern adaptations of Shakespeare.

When I became an education professor, I started to realize just how rife for innovation popular literary exploration was. There were SO many untapped ways to use technology—especially text mining and data visualizations—to help readers enjoy literature in totally new ways.

So little by little, I have taught myself enough programming to create literary data sets of books I read and to share my explorations here. The result is a growing archive of unique data visualizations and analyses that, at least for me, offer new kinds of insight into the pages I turn.

I call it Plotting Plots. And I hope you enjoy.

- Tom Liam Lynch, Ed.D.

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