data visualization – Lawrence Evalyn

Vintage “small data”: playing with an Index to Tears

Published on September 29, 2017December 10, 2017 by lawrence

I love indexes. They’re like spreadsheets in disguise, (and as previously established, I love spreadsheets). So when I was reading Henry Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling (1771) for my special fields exam, and I noticed that the Victorian edition digitized for Project Gutenberg included an “index to tears” for the novel… well, I got a little carried away.

Continue reading “Vintage “small data”: playing with an Index to Tears” →

My 2016 Reading Review

Published on March 14, 2017December 31, 2018 by lawrence

In my ongoing quest to make as many spreadsheets and graphs as possible, I pulled my reading history from Goodreads for 2016. Last year saw me through my last semester of coursework, and the entirety of my comprehensive exams, both of which I expected to have a pretty substantial influence on my reading habits. I’ll be curious to compare the stats to other years some time, but for now, let’s dig in to the 60 books I read last year!

Continue reading “My 2016 Reading Review” →