The Distant Reader

The Distant Reader is both a command-line application and a Web-based service enabling the student, researcher, or scholar to analyze narrative texts at scale. Examples include:

• for college students, the totality of assigned readings in Philosophy 101
• for graduate students, every item in a dissertation's bibliography
• for researchers, the whole of a comprehensive literature review, or
• for scholars, the complete works of a given author or genre

As it gets moved from one host to another, the Web-based interface is currently offline. It is expected to be back online by the Fall semester. Wish me luck.

Links to learn more:

• original paper
• documentation
• source code
• blog postings
• entertaining radio interview
• screen-play and movie
• hands-on workshop
  
  
• stacks - a library of data sets ("study carrels") and other content