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A peer-reviewed venue for literary and cultural datasets 📚 🎬 🎮 — with a focus on data from 1945 to the present. Always open-access.

Use our data or submit a new dataset! https://data.post45.org/
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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jun 5
Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here.

We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org

Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
Are you a grad student working on post-1945 culture? Could your research benefit from incorporating some data, even minimally? Want feedback from journal editors?

This Post45 Data Collective virtual workshop may be for you!

Applications are due DECEMBER 1: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
pricelab.bsky.social The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 14d
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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pricelab.bsky.social
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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ltjward.bsky.social
Back again with the Selected British Literary Prizes dataset for #TidyTuesday. It was really nice to see LGBTQ+ data included🏳️‍🌈. I also had a look at ethnic diversity across prize institutions and winner vs. shortlist % for nominees from the top 15 unis.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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karaman.is
I created a heatmap for this week's #TidyTuesday showing UK literary prize demographics with data from @post45data.bsky.social. White British authors account for 61% of winners vs. 46% shortlisted. Men win 56% vs. 46% shortlisted.

Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t...

#RStats #dataviz
A heatmap showing gender and ethnic representation in UK literary prizes, split into two panels for shortlisted authors and winners. The visualization displays counts across ethnicity categories (African, Asian, Black British, Caribbean, Irish, Jewish, Non-UK White, Non-White American, and White British) on the y-axis and gender categories (Man, Non-binary, Transman, and Woman) on the x-axis. Each cell shows the count with white text on a colored background, where darker colors indicate higher counts. White British men show the highest counts in both panels (120 shortlisted, 149 winners), followed by White British women (123 shortlisted, 105 winners). Non-UK White authors also show substantial representation (39 men and 87 women shortlisted; 40 men and 32 women winners). Most other ethnic groups show single-digit counts, with several cells having zero representation. The data reveals that White British authors increase from 46% of shortlisted to 61% of winners, while women decrease from 54% of shortlisted to 43% of winners.
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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stats33100.bsky.social
This week's #TidyTuesday data was interesting. I decided to look into the Costa Book Awards and the gender distribution of their winners.

Data: github.com/stats33100/t...
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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pgdataviz.bsky.social
Looked at the percentage of Oxbridge educated people who have won various British Literary Prizes for #TidyTuesday. I used ggbrick and, as the bricks of look like books, tried to make it look like they were in bookshelves with meh results.

Code here: tinyurl.com/bddsuuc3

#rstats | #dataviz
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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post45.bsky.social
TWO great opportunities for graduate students in post45 literary studies in 2026! The Post45 Graduate Symposium @ Duke and @post45data.bsky.social’s virtual workshop for research with their data sets.
mellymeldubs.bsky.social Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Oct 27
We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way.

Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback.

Proposals are due December 1!
manshel.bsky.social Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · Oct 27
DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,

This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.

More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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October 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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arthurzw.bsky.social
Excited to get to sit in on this workshop! Hopefully, @post45.bsky.social will get the opportunity to publish some articles that emerge from this P45DC event 🤩
mellymeldubs.bsky.social Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Oct 27
We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way.

Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback.

Proposals are due December 1!
manshel.bsky.social Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · Oct 27
DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,

This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.

More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1/4
October 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way.

Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback.

Proposals are due December 1!
October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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deepalikank.in
Catching up with hashtag#TidyTuesday.
week 39 - Crane Observations at Lake Hornborgasjön, Sweden (1994–2024)
week 43 - Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022)
Both charts created in Observable
Notebooks: observablehq.com/user/@deepal...
#DataViz #JavaScript #Figma
October 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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nrennie.bsky.social
This week's #TidyTuesday is all about who has won or been shortlisted for a British literary prize 📖

I focused on the gender balance of authors awarded prizes for fiction 📊 The changing names of awards made the data wrangling a little bit more tricky!

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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post45.bsky.social
The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.

Abstracts are due November 14.
Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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arthurzw.bsky.social
oh look the best graduate conference is back 👀
post45.bsky.social Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · Oct 9
The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.

Abstracts are due November 14.
Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.
October 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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manshel.bsky.social
DEAR GRAD STUDENTS,

This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture.

More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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CFP: The Data of Post45 Literature and Culture (Online Graduate Workshop)
How has encroaching climate disaster impacted how the future is imagined in science fiction novels? What can a century of NYT bestsellers lists tell us about trends in mainstream publishing? And how c...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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jonthegeek.com
@dslc.io welcomes you to week 43 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022)!

📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-10-28
🗞️ https://theconversation.com/why-we-still-need-a-womens-prize-for-fiction-257494

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
Logo for the #TidyTuesday Project. The words TidyTuesday, A weekly data project from the Data Science Learning Community (dslc.io) overlaying a black paint splash. TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results! TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club! How to Participate Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data. Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data. Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language. Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag. This horizontal bar chart shows gender distribution of winners across British literary awards. Each bar displays the percentage and count of women (blue), men (green), and non-binary (yellow) winners. The Women's Prize for Fiction is 100% women by design. Other awards show varying gender representation, with women most represented in children's literature (Costa Children's Book Award at 71%) and poetry (Ted Hughes Award at 50%). Most other prizes show male majorities, ranging from slight (Costa awards around 52% men) to substantial (BSFA Award at 79% men). The data reveals significant gender imbalances across most literary prizes, with men winning the majority of awards except in women-specific and children's categories.
October 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
post45data.bsky.social
So cool that the British Literary Prize dataset is the focus of this week’s #TidyTuesday — a weekly community project where people visualize and explore data.

This shelf viz is fantastic! Looking forward to seeing more explorations throughout the week.

TidyTuesday: github.com/rfordatascie...
cborstell.bsky.social Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · Oct 24
Friday night early #TidyTuesday of British Literary Prizes.

Wanted it as a bookshelf, made it into a bookshelf 📚

Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

#R4DS #DataViz
A plot with the title "British Literary Prizes (1991-2022): Proportion of women & non-binary authors among literary prize recipients over time". The plot is designed to resemble a bookcase, with each 5-year time period from 1991 to 2022 featured as a single shelf, and books representing individual prize recipients. Women and non-binary winners are color coded pink-ish and light blue-ish, respectively. Women and non-binary authors were in the minority until 2010–2014 and have constituted about half of the winners since then. Data: Post45 Data Collective via TidyTuesday; Packages: {tidyverse, marquee}; Visualization: C. Börstell.
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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sponce1.bsky.social
📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W43 | Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022)
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
A two-panel visualization analyzing gender equity in British literary prizes from 1990 to 2022. The top panel shows a line chart of women's share of winners, which increased from 35% to 50% and showed significant year-to-year variation. The bottom panel displays a horizontal pyramid chart comparing 13 major prizes, revealing that only four achieved gender balance (40-60% women). Seven prizes remain male-dominant, and two are female-dominant, showing persistent disparities despite overall progress.
October 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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cborstell.bsky.social
Friday night early #TidyTuesday of British Literary Prizes.

Wanted it as a bookshelf, made it into a bookshelf 📚

Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

#R4DS #DataViz
A plot with the title "British Literary Prizes (1991-2022): Proportion of women & non-binary authors among literary prize recipients over time". The plot is designed to resemble a bookcase, with each 5-year time period from 1991 to 2022 featured as a single shelf, and books representing individual prize recipients. Women and non-binary winners are color coded pink-ish and light blue-ish, respectively. Women and non-binary authors were in the minority until 2010–2014 and have constituted about half of the winners since then. Data: Post45 Data Collective via TidyTuesday; Packages: {tidyverse, marquee}; Visualization: C. Börstell.
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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hararereview.bsky.social
This is truly marvellous. //
Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/posts/futuri...
Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.
data.post45.org
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
#publishing #xl8 #translation
post45data.bsky.social Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jul 29
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
September 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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sdileonardi.bsky.social
I’m very excited to share this. My first time co-writing with a student who won a year-long fellowship to help compile the data. Many thanks owed to those who read, edited, and supported along the way. Please share widely!!
dan-sinnamon.bsky.social Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Sep 16
Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
www.publicbooks.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...
How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books
A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
www.publicbooks.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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jingajik.bsky.social
Dataset with book bestseller info for New Zealand Market, 2019-2022
post45data.bsky.social Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jul 29
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
August 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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lauraestill.bsky.social
looking for some fun literary datasets for the upcoming semester? check these out!
post45data.bsky.social Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jun 5
Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here.

We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org

Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!
August 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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lbmcgrath.bsky.social
This is such a wonderful resource from Long Le-Khac and the @post45data.bsky.social: The Canon of Asian American Literature.
post45data.bsky.social Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Aug 13
📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature

From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon formation.

Explore the data here: doi.org/10.18737/092...
The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.
doi.org
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM