network analysis of the shining
TRANSCRIPT
Why Network Analysis?● Identify core actors and places
● Identify relationships between actors, and actors and places
● Identify groups (“clusters”) of actors
● ...ideally without reading the text
Starting with e-TextWendy suddenly felt bad, almost crying bad... She hung the dish towel over the bar by the sink and went downstairs, buttoning the top two buttons of her house dress. Jack and his pride! Hey no, Al, I don't need an advance... The whole building smelled of sour age, and what sort of place was this for Danny after the small neat brick house in Stovington? The people living above them on the third floor weren't married, and while that didn't bother her, their constant, rancorous fighting did. It scared her. The guy up there was Tom, and after the bars had closed and they had returned home, the fights would start in earnest – the rest of the week was just a prelim in comparison. The Friday Night Fights, Jack called them, but it wasn't funny.
[Named] Entity ExtractionWendy suddenly felt bad, almost crying bad... She hung the dish towel over the bar by the sink and went downstairs, buttoning the top two buttons of her house dress. Jack and his pride! Hey no, Al, I don't need an advance... The whole building smelled of sour age, and what sort of place was this for Danny after the small neat brick house in Stovington? The people living above them on the third floor weren't married, and while that didn't bother her, their constant, rancorous fighting did. It scared her. The guy up there was Tom, and after the bars had closed and they had returned home, the fights would start in earnest – the rest of the week was just a prelim in comparison. The Friday Night Fights, Jack called them, but it wasn't funny.
Possible ProblemsWendy suddenly felt bad, almost crying bad... She hung the dish towel over the bar by the sink and went downstairs, buttoning the top two buttons of her house dress. Jack and his pride! Hey no, Al, I don't need an advance... The whole building smelled of sour age, and what sort of place was this for Danny after the small neat brick house in Stovington? The people living above them on the third floor weren't married, and while that didn't bother her, their constant, rancorous fighting did. It scared her. The guy up there was Tom, and after the bars had closed and they had returned home, the fights would start in earnest – the rest of the week was just a prelim in comparison. The Friday Night Fights, Jack called them, but it wasn't funny.
Anonymous references
Non-entities
One entity several names→
One name several entities→
Co-Occurrence DetectionWendy suddenly felt bad, almost crying bad... She hung the dish towel over the bar by the sink and went downstairs, buttoning the top two buttons of her house dress. Jack and his pride! Hey no, Al, I don't need an advance... The whole building smelled of sour age, and what sort of place was this for Danny after the small neat brick house in Stovington? The people living above them on the third floor weren't married, and while that didn't bother her, their constant, rancorous fighting did. It scared her. The guy up there was Tom, and after the bars had closed and they had returned home, the fights would start in earnest – the rest of the week was just a prelim in comparison. The Friday Night Fights, Jack called them, but it wasn't funny.
● Within 35 words?● Within one
paragraph?● Within one chapter?
Similarity Calculation● Quantitative similarity on the scale from -1
(totally dissimilar) to 1 (totally similar)
● Two entities are similar if they act in similar chapters
● Two chapters are similar if they refer to similar entities
Network Construction
Connection thickness—similarity.
Font size—number of references to the entity in the text
Hatfield
Stovington
JackDick
Watson
Al
Hallorann
Roger
LloydGrady
Durkin
Tony
DerwentHotel
Florida
Overlook
Torrance
Boulder
Dad
Redrum
Sidewinder
Ullman
Shockley
Edmonds
Mom
Colorado
George
Denver
WendyDanny
Detecting Clusters
Pink: Initial setup
Orange: Danny's perspective and ability to read minds
Green: Information about hotel
Hatfield
Stovington
JackDick
Watson
Al
Hallorann
Roger
LloydGrady
Durkin
Tony
DerwentHotel
Florida
Overlook
Torrance
Boulder
Dad
Redrum
Sidewinder
Ullman
Shockley
Edmonds
Mom
Colorado
George
Denver
WendyDanny
Betweenness
Node size—betweenness centrality (BC). The higher is BC—the more “central” is the character / place
Highest BC: Schockley, Edmonds, Florida, Dad, Durkin, Al, Watson, Lloyd, Ullman, Sidewinder.
Hatfield
Stovington
JackDick
Watson
Al
Hallorann
Roger
LloydGrady
Durkin
Tony
DerwentHotel
Florida
Overlook
Torrance
Boulder
Dad
Redrum
Sidewinder
Ullman
Shockley
Edmonds
Mom
Colorado
George
Denver
WendyDanny
Summary● Identified three plot lines, including characters
and locations
● Identified “most important” characters
● Network as a navigational chart of the book
● Almost no reading involved!