A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165

This project has been supported by the @post45data.bsky.social. It was initially funded by an NEH grant led by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and me. Then our NEH got cancelled. But we persisted! Matt, Dan, and I have been working on this project for years at this point.

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors? This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you! Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...

The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...

Back again with the Selected British Literary Prizes dataset for #TidyTuesday. It was really nice to see LGBTQ+ data included🏳️‍🌈. I also had a look at ethnic diversity across prize institutions and winner vs. shortlist % for nominees from the top 15 unis. lewis-ward.github.io/tidytuesday/...

I created a heatmap for this week's #TidyTuesday showing UK literary prize demographics with data from @post45data.bsky.social. White British authors account for 61% of winners vs. 46% shortlisted. Men win 56% vs. 46% shortlisted. Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

This week's #TidyTuesday data was interesting. I decided to look into the Costa Book Awards and the gender distribution of their winners. Data: github.com/stats33100/t...

Looked at the percentage of Oxbridge educated people who have won various British Literary Prizes for #TidyTuesday. I used ggbrick and, as the bricks of look like books, tried to make it look like they were in bookshelves with meh results. Code here: tinyurl.com/bddsuuc3 #rstats | #dataviz

TWO great opportunities for graduate students in post45 literary studies in 2026! The Post45 Graduate Symposium @ Duke and @post45data.bsky.social’s virtual workshop for research with their data sets.

Excited to get to sit in on this workshop! Hopefully, @post45.bsky.social will get the opportunity to publish some articles that emerge from this P45DC event 🤩

We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way. Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback. Proposals are due December 1!

Catching up with hashtag#TidyTuesday. week 39 - Crane Observations at Lake Hornborgasjön, Sweden (1994–2024) week 43 - Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) Both charts created in Observable Notebooks: observablehq.com/user/@deepal... #DataViz #JavaScript #Figma

This week's #TidyTuesday is all about who has won or been shortlisted for a British literary prize 📖 I focused on the gender balance of authors awarded prizes for fiction 📊 The changing names of awards made the data wrangling a little bit more tricky! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested. Abstracts are due November 14.

oh look the best graduate conference is back 👀

DEAR GRAD STUDENTS, This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture. More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 1/4

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 43 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022)! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-10-28 🗞️ https://theconversation.com/why-we-still-need-a-womens-prize-for-fiction-257494#TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

So cool that the British Literary Prize dataset is the focus of this week’s #TidyTuesday — a weekly community project where people visualize and explore data. This shelf viz is fantastic! Looking forward to seeing more explorations throughout the week. TidyTuesday: github.com/rfordatascie...

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W43 | Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

Friday night early #TidyTuesday of British Literary Prizes. Wanted it as a bookshelf, made it into a bookshelf 📚 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #DataViz

This is truly marvellous. // Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/posts/futuri...

#publishing #xl8 #translation

I’m very excited to share this. My first time co-writing with a student who won a year-long fellowship to help compile the data. Many thanks owed to those who read, edited, and supported along the way. Please share widely!!

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us. www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

Dataset with book bestseller info for New Zealand Market, 2019-2022

looking for some fun literary datasets for the upcoming semester? check these out!

This is such a wonderful resource from Long Le-Khac and the @post45data.bsky.social: The Canon of Asian American Literature.

"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature." Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...

This resource maps the growing fields of Asian American literature & scholarship since the 1970s. It includes more than 700 scholarly publications, plus every work cited in them—books, film, TV, video games, etc—and detailed demographic information for their authors. Explore, teach, & build on it!

A fantastic resource for anyone interested in American literature, ethnic studies, or the changing literary canon!

📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon formation. Explore the data here: doi.org/10.18737/092...

📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon formation. Explore the data here: doi.org/10.18737/092...

The publication of this issue also marks the end of @anniemcc.bsky.social's distinguished five-year term as Co-Editor of the journal. Our new Co-Editor is @jdconnor.bsky.social. Congratulations to Annie and J.D.!

There’s lot of bullshit ways that we weigh literary/artistic value, & always have been,* but sweet fancy Moses right now likes/subs/views feel particularly insidious. *see @post45data.bsky.social on the insularity of literary awards, @meganpeiser.bsky.social history of novel reviewing, etc.

This is so cool! Sharing with researchers who are interested in the literary market 👍

Whoa. This looks like an amazing new dataset from the folks over at @post45data.bsky.social

In 2021-2022 I was struggling with just the French data for months before putting that project on hold indefinitely. 😭 Super grateful that others persisted, and looking forward to using it for #MultilingualDH. 🙏

Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....

Hoo boy! I can’t believe it’s happening. We’ve been working on this for years. Thanks to @post45data.bsky.social you can now search our IB database, with a very cool interface! Please share with anyone who might be interested Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉 🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce a new release of our open-access Extracted Features dataset, a statistical snapshot of: 18,725,868 volumes 6,867,699,164 pages 3,255,304,293,468 tokens 450+ languages go.illinois.edu/EF25 for details & download cc:@hathitrust.bsky.social #DH2025

Check out the latest edition of the fantastic Data Is Plural newsletter: www.data-is-plural.com/archive/2025... You can find data about landfills, car crashes, AI legal flubs, subway art, and... British Literary Prizes! V. exciting to see Katherine Binhammer et al.'s dataset featured in this venue

data.post45.org/posts/futuri... cool dataset alert!

Are we getting worse at imagining the future? Check out the new dataset Grant Wythoff and I just published, “Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction”!

A fascinating dataset that will be of interest to sci-fi scholars and beyond. And co-authored by Cornell Lit in English grad student @teddyleane.bsky.social!

This is an incredible dataset, and it's a lot of fun to play around with it on the Post45 site!

We talk a lot about how plot and character work, but not enough about how setting does. How far back, or forward, stories take place—and whether that historical/speculative distance is changing—is really interesting, and this new dataset is a gift! Bravo to Grant Wythoff and @teddyleane.bsky.social!

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away? Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting. doi.org/10.18737/552...

Congratulations to Orlando associates Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Maryse Jayasuriya, and Theo Gray on the publication of their work on contemporary literary prizes for women writers. First, their article on "Why We Still Need a Women's Prize for Fiction": theconversation.com/why-we-still...