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###Visualizing Shakespearean Characters

This repo contains utilities used to collect and visualize data on Shakespeare's characters.

utils/shakespearean-networks.py requires the Folger Shakespeare Digital Texts collection of Shakespeare XML. Once those files are downloaded and unzipped, one should specify a glob path to the XML directory in the following line:

folger_xml_path = "./XML/*.xml"

Once this path is set, one can run python shakesperean-networks.py, which will generate an output directory entitled "json" that contains the json to be fed to the cooccurrence visualization.

To generate the json for the scatter plots, one can run python parse_json.py "json/*.json" on that json directory.

To visualize the plots locally, just start a webserver from the directory in which index.html is located using:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This will start a server on port 8000 by default. Index.html will then make calls to the json files loaded in Amazon Web Service's S3 servers. If you open a browser and navigate to:

localhost:8000

you should be able to see the visualizations.