Projects
Our featured projects are fully interactive explorations of language, cognition, and data. Each is citable as a research output.
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.
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.