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Can we make the computer say something about characters in a book? In this piece I will search for the names of characters and the words around those names in books. What can we learn about a character from text analysis? Of course it’s also just another excuse for me to read the Hitchhikers series! I will break down the text into chunks of two words, extract the word pairs that matter and visualize the results. [Read More]

In this tutorial I show how to read in a epub file (f.i. from your ebook collection on you computer) into R with the pubcrawl package. In emoji speak: 🍺📖📦 . I will show the reading in part, (one line of code) and some other actions you might want to perform on textfiles before they are ready for text analysis. After you read in your epub file you can do some cool analyses on it, but that is part of the next blogpost. [Read More]