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Can Data Crunching Help Us Learn What Makes Books Good Or Bad?

WORDS Posted: April 29, 2014 12:50 am

“As a literary critic who says he aims to study books without actually reading them, Franco Moretti … [treats them] like data: taking massive digital archives of texts and using computers to scan them for patterns no human reader would have the time, attention or patience to sift out.”

WORDS Published: 04.23.14

Read the story in Salon Published: 04.23.14

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