Projects
The Wealth of Nations — 250th Anniversary Digital Edition
An interactive exploration of Adam Smith's 1776 masterwork. Topic modeling, named entity recognition, rhetorical metaphor analysis, and full-text search across all five books.
The Nagel Index — Public vs. Private Personality
Big Five personality analysis of political leaders, measuring the gap between their public speeches and private correspondence. Inspired by Thomas Nagel's essay on ruthlessness in public life.
Market Metaphors — Kindleberger Phases × Narrative Economics
Tracing the evolution of metaphorical language in 158,666 financial news headlines (2009–2020) across five crisis events, mapping metaphor domains to the Minsky–Kindleberger panic cycle.
The Narrative Engine — FOMC Speech Analysis
A pilot dashboard comparing how FOMC governors talk about the economy — topic, narrative type, stance, and time-orientation across four speeches, with a drill-down inspector for individual expressions.
Semantic Shifts in Presidential Rhetoric
Tracking how the meaning of political concepts like freedom, democracy, and war evolves across 250 years of American presidential discourse. Built with our open-source chronowords package — PPMI embeddings, Procrustes alignment, and NMF topic modeling.
Semantic Explorer — Interactive Co-occurrence Networks
Explore the semantic structure of classic texts through interactive ego networks. Type a seed word, click to expand, and trace how meaning propagates through Tolstoy, Plato, Adam Smith, Darwin, and more. Built with our open-source kenon package.
The Tractatus as a Flat Spiral
The complete text of Wittgenstein's Tractatus walked out as a flat, right-angle spiral — one continuous path through its numbered propositions, set in handwriting and coloured by topical cluster. Companion visualisation to the Aporia essay.
The Tractatus as a Helix
The same spiral lifted into three dimensions: each proposition set a constant step above the last, so the Tractatus climbs as it turns. Rendered in handwriting and navigable sentence by sentence.
The Punctuation Spiral
The Tractatus stripped to its punctuation alone — every mark in sequence, spiralled outward. What remains when the words are removed: the rhythm and breath of the argument.
Hungarian Pop Lyrics — A Diachronic Analysis
Six decades of Hungarian popular-music lyrics: distinctive words, shifting themes, semantic drift and genre from the 1960s to today.