Dr Adam Calhoun is a neuroscientist at Princeton University, who, among other things, writes about how the brain works by using data visualisations.
In a recent post on Medium, and on his blog, he looked at the different uses of punctuation in novels, by using a tool to extract only the punctuation from novels.
Calhoun told indy100 he was inspired by a series of posters:
I was originally inspired by Nicholas Rougeux who had the original idea: take the words out of novels and just display the punctuation. I really just wanted to choose my favourite novel and put up the punctuation all across my wall. But I'm a scientist, so I immediately wanted to know how different authors compare! I first tried Faulkner and McCarthy and got the stunning visual difference that you can see.
In a recent post on Medium, and on his blog, he looked at the different uses of punctuation in novels, by using a tool to extract only the punctuation from novels.
Calhoun told indy100 he was inspired by a series of posters:
I was originally inspired by Nicholas Rougeux who had the original idea: take the words out of novels and just display the punctuation. I really just wanted to choose my favourite novel and put up the punctuation all across my wall. But I'm a scientist, so I immediately wanted to know how different authors compare! I first tried Faulkner and McCarthy and got the stunning visual difference that you can see.