Matthew lee jockers (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveranderung. Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you'll typically hear that it's a game of hazy crystals balls. The sales figures of E. L. James or Dan Brown seem to be freakish--random occurrences in an unknowable market. So often we hear that nothing but hype explains their success, but what if there were an algorithm that could reveal a secret DNA of bestsellers, regardless of their genre? What if it knew, just from analyzing the words alone, not just why genre writers like John Grisham and Danielle Steel belong on the lists, but also that authors such as Junot Diaz, Jodi Picoult, and Donna Tartt had tell-tale signs of success all over their pages? Thanks to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, the algorithm exists, the code has been cracked, and the results bring fresh new insights into how fiction works and why we read. The Bestseller Code offers a new theory for why Fifty Shades of Grey sold so well. It sheds light on the current craze for dark heroines. It reveals which themes tend to sell best. And all with fascinating supporting data taken from a five year study of 20,000 novels. Then there is the hunt for "the one"--the paradigmatic example of bestselling writing according to a computer's analysis of thousands of points of data. The result is surprising, a bit ironic, and delightfully unorthodox.…

Hardcover. Condición: Gut. XVI, 194 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. R-10045 9783319031637 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 350.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. pp 26. Booklet. Original publisher's stapled covers, lettered black and blue. This paper is the report of a study which tried to establish whether computer-generated algorithms could 'recognise' literary genres. Based on a corpus of 250 19th century British novels from the Chadwick-Healey collection. Pamphlets of the Stanford Literary Lab, pamphlet 1. Very faint surface wear to covers, otherwise very good indeed.…