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Biography

For many years, Jockers was an academic. He was a Dean, an Associate Dean, a professor of English and Data Analytics. He was also an entrepreneur and was involved in the founding of three book industry tech startups. He left academia in 2021 to work for Apple.

Jockers’s research is focused on computational approaches to the study of text, especially large collections of literature. His books include Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (UIUC Press 2013), Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature (First Edition 2014, Second Edition 2020) and, with Jodie Archer, The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel (St. Martins 2016). More on Jockers can be found at www.matthewjockers.net

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Employment (9)

Apple Inc.: Cupertino, CA, US

2021-06-01 to present | Distinguished Research Scientist / Senior Manager (Apple Media Products)
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Washington State University: Pullman, Washington, US

2018-08-01 to 2021-05-31 | Professor (English/Data Analytics)
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Authors A.I.: Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, US

2019-04-01 to 2021-05-30 | Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
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Washington State University: Pullman, WA, US

2018-08-01 to 2020-12-31 | Dean
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Lincoln, NE, US

2012-08 to 2018-07-31 | Professor (English/Digital Humanities)
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Apple Inc: Cupertino, CA, US

2014-04 to 2015-08 | Principal Research Scientist (iTunes Engineering)
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Novel Projects / Booklamp: Boise, ID, US

2009 to 2014 | Director of Research (Research and Development)
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Stanford University: Stanford, CA, US

2001-02 to 2012-07 | Lecturer/Academic Technology Specialist (English/Academic Computing)
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University of Northern Colorado: Greeley, CO, US

1997-08 to 2001-02 | Coordinator of Curriculum, Instruction, and Technology (Center for Human Enrichment)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Carbondale, IL, US

1993-08 to 1997-05 | PhD (English)
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University of Northern Colorado: Greeley, CO, US

1990-08 to 1993-05 | MA (English)
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Montana State University Bozeman: Bozeman, MT, US

1984-09 to 1989-06 | BA (English)
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Funding (1)

Text mining the novel: establishing the foundations of a new discipline

2013-04-01 to 2016-03-31 | Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Ottawa, CA)
URL: https://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000155/125210/Text-mining-the-novel-establishing-the-foundations-of-a-new-discipline
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Works (42)

The pace of modern culture

Nature Human Behaviour
2020-01-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0802-4
Contributors: Ben Lambert; Georgios Kontonatsios; Matthias Mauch; Theodore Kokkoris; Matthew Jockers; Sophia Ananiadou; Armand M. Leroi
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Judging style: The case of Bush versus Gore

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
2019-05-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqz028
Part of ISSN: 2055-7671
Part of ISSN: 2055-768X
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From a distance ‘You might mistake her for a man’: A closer reading of gender and character action in Jane Eyre, The Law and the Lady, and A Brilliant Woman1

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
2018-12-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqy011
Part of ISSN: 2055-7671
Part of ISSN: 2055-768X
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Normalized Dependency Distance: Proposing a New Measure

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
2018-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2018.1504615
Part of ISSN: 0929-6174
Contributors: Lei Lei; Matthew L. Jockers
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'No Reasonable Person': The Rhetoric of Justice Scalia

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2018-01 | Report
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A multiscale theory for the dynamical evolution of sentiment in novels

2016 International Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing (BESC)
2016-11 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1109/besc.2016.7804470
Contributors: Jianbo Gao; Matthew L. Jockers; John Laudun; Timothy Tangherlini
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The Bestseller Code

St. Martins Press
2016-09-20 | Book
ISBN: 978-1-250-08827-7
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Text-Mining the Humanities

A New Companion to Digital Humanities
2015-11 | Other
DOI: 10.1002/9781118680605.ch20
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers; Ted Underwood
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Accessing and Comparing Word Frequency Data

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_3
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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Classification

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_12
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Clustering

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_11
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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Correlation

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_5
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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Do It KWIC

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_8
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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Do It KWIC (Better)

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_9
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First Foray into Text Analysis with R

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_2
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Hapax Richness

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_7
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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Measures of Lexical Variety

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_6
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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R Basics

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_1
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
2014 | Book
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4
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Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature

2014 | Book
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Text Quality, Text Variety, and Parsing XML

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_10
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Token Distribution Analysis

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_4
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Topic Modeling

Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03164-4_13
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Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History

2013 | Book
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Significant themes in 19th-century literature

Poetics
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2013.08.005
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers; David Mimno
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Testing authorship in the personal writings of joseph smith using NSC classification

Literary and Linguistic Computing
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqs041
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Testing Authorship in the Personal Writings of Joseph Smith Using NSC Classification

2013 | Journal article
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Digital archives: Don't let copyright block data mining

Nature
2012-10-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/490029a
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers; Matthew Sag; Jason Schultz
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A comparative study of machine learning methods for authorship attribution

Literary and Linguistic Computing
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqq001
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Contributors: Jockers, M.L.; Witten, D.M.
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A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Methods for Authorship Attribution

2010 | Journal article
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West of Eire: Butte's Irish Ethos

2009 | Book
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West of Éire: Butte's Irish ethos

All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature
2009 | Book
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Reassessing authorship of the Book of Mormon using delta and nearest shrunken centroid classification

Literary and Linguistic Computing
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqn040
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Contributors: Jockers, M.L.; Witten, D.M.; Criddle, C.S.
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A Window Facing West: Charles Driscoll's Kansas Irish

New Hibernia Review
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1353/nhr.2004.0059
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers
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A Window Facing West: Charles Driscoll's Kansas Irish

2004 | Journal article
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In Search of Tir-na-nog: Irish and Irish-American Literature in the West

1997 | Dissertation or Thesis
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Another 'Word Known to All Men' in Joyce's Ulysses?

1996 | Journal article
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Joyce's Ulysses

1992 | Journal article
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Joyce's Ulysses

The Explicator
1992-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00144940.1992.9935332
Contributors: Craig S. Smith; Matthew L. Jockers
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Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors Guild v. Google

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal article
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2102542
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers; Matthew Sag; Jason Schultz
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Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors Guild v. Hathitrust

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal article
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2274832
Contributors: Matthew L. Jockers; Matthew Sag; Jason Schultz
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Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellees and Affirmance, (The Authors Guild, Inc., et al., v. Google, Inc., et al.) (Second Circuit)

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal article
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2465413
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