Replication code and data for “Missing data, Speculative Reading”

This repository provides replication code and data for Missing Data, Speculative Reading, by Rebecca Sutton Koeser and Zoe LeBlanc, co-published by Modernism/modernity PrintPlus and Journal of Cultural Analytics as part of a special issue on “The World of Shakespeare and Company” edited by Joshua Kotin and Rebecca Sutton Koeser.

Read the article on Modernism/modernity PrintPlus; read article on Journal of Cultural Analytics.

Contents

• data - data specific to this article and source data from the Shakepeare and Company Project
• missing_data - code notebooks for the missing data portion of the article
• speculative_reading - code notebooks for the speculative reading portion of the article
• appendix - additional notebooks with validation, alternate approaches, etc; work that did not make it into the article
• figures - exported versions of figures for the article generated by code in multiple formats where supported
• utils - utility python code used by multiple notebooks

Installing dependencies and running code

This code has been tested against python 3.9.

To run the code, first clone or download the repository.

Python dependencies are documented in requirements.txt. We recommend using a python virtual environment. Dependencies can be installed with pip:

pip install -r requirements.lock

Testing

There are unit tests for some utility code, which include checks that data files are available at the expected locations. To run them, install and run pytest:

pip install pytest
pytest

Code notebooks can be run using jupyter-lab or a jupyter-aware IDE such as VS Code. They are intended to be run locally, with dependencies installed.

We use treon (pip install treon) to confirm that Jupyter notebooks execute without errors.