Last semester, I worked on a project to analyze the book Infinite Jest as a network. Well, after a few more nights of work, I’m pleased to announce that it’s now able to work on any book! It will turn the book into a network of character co-mentions using named entity recognition and a small bit of manual intervention when it’s not sure.

  • Example output here.
  • Code with instructions is open-sourced here.
  • Visualizations made using the excellent webweb.