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Tracking Social Networking In Shakespeare Plays

Posted by simoniker on from the rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-closely-allied dept.

An anonymous reader writes "By feeding PieSpy (an IRC bot used to visualise social networks) with the entire texts of Shakespeare plays, it became possible to produce drawings of the social networks present in his plays - it is now possible to visualize the relationships between the characters in his works, and see Shakespeare in an entirely new light."

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  1. What about... by lofoforabr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    feeding a program written in Shakespeare Programming Language to it? Should be real fun!

  2. Re:ENG 201 by templest · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You must of had a pretty crappy teacher then. TV pretty much made me hate shakespear back in the day, but my highschool english teacher actually made it good. Macbeth kicks ass, and to you sir, I bite my thumb.

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