David Bamman was trying to analyze “Pride and Prejudice” — digitally. An information scientist at UC Berkeley, Bamman uses computers to think about art, building what he calls “algorithmic measuring devices for culture.” That means extracting data from classic literature about things like, say, the relationships among various characters. In this case, he was going to start with a question that’d be easy for an even marginally literate human: Are Lizzie…
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