{"id":5639,"date":"2015-01-14T18:10:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:10:29","slug":"wilkens-literary-attention-lag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5639","title":{"rendered":"Wilkens: Literary Attention Lag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mattwilkens.com\/2015\/01\/13\/literary-attention-lag\/\"><img src='http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/chi-no-counts-better.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Wilkens has posted a nice blog essay about his short MLA paper on geography and memory,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mattwilkens.com\/2015\/01\/13\/literary-attention-lag\/\">Literary Attention Lag<\/a>. He looked at how some cities get far more literary attention than their population merits despite a general correlation between population and attention. For example, in 1860 Chicago and New Orleans had about the same population, but New Orleans gets a lot more attention.<\/p>\n<p>What is particularly useful is that he provides an <a href=\"http:\/\/nbviewer.ipython.org\/gist\/wilkens\/ed8b6eaa35497d2cd491\">iPython notebook with a documented version of his code here<\/a>. He also provides a link to his data so you can edit and recapitulate his study.<\/p>\n<p>St\u00e9fan Sinclair and I are experimenting with Mathematica notebooks and iPython notebooks as a way to share research thinking with code woven in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Wilkens has posted a nice blog essay about his short MLA paper on geography and memory,\u00a0Literary Attention Lag. He looked at how some cities get far more literary attention than their population merits despite a general correlation between population and attention. For example, in 1860 Chicago and New Orleans had about the same population, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wilkens: Literary Attention Lag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-analysis","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5646,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}