Text Palettes

I’ve been working on a few projects that put digital technology in the service of close reading literary texts. This first one is called “Text Palettes,” a simple Python script that reads a text for its colors and then outputs a simple pie chart of the color distribution. It is limited and reductive, but in […]

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python resources

I am learning python to work with texts.  I’m not a programmer, but since I want to be able to do simple things that a computer can do way faster than I can (like, for example, count words), I am picking up some new skillzzzzz.  Here’s what I’ve been using: tutorials https://www.codecademy.com/learn/python (+) free, thorough, […]

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Campbell Conference

Very much looking forward to being a part of this year’s Campbell Conference. Science Fiction has been a staple of FAU’s curriculum for decades, and the Center for the Study of SF at Kansas University dates back to the 60s.  I’ll definitely want to pore over KU’s Science Fiction Collection, especially the Sturgeon Papers.

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