/lit/ - Literature

http://www.matthewjockers.net/2015/02/02/syuzhet/

> "digital humanities"

This guy claims he can discern the emotional trajectory of the plot of any book using sentence-by-sentence sentiment analysis.

Pic related is the emotional trajectory of Portrait of the Artist...things start out ok, get good, go bad, go really bad, then get steadily better and end on a high note

If you're so into literature, why haven't you learned how to program yet in order to discover the underlying statistical emotional patterns of the greatest novels ever written? :^)