{"id":1929,"date":"2016-11-13T18:13:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T02:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2016-11-13T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T02:13:44","slug":"blog-7-network-analysis-and-eel-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/11\/13\/blog-7-network-analysis-and-eel-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 7: Network Analysis and Eel Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this network analysis assignment, I decided to create a network graph based off the characters from Misuyo Kakuta\u2019s short story, Bucket of Eels<\/a>. Bucket of Eels implicitly tells a narrative of Kakuta\u2019s love life as she explores the city of Tokyo, Japan. As the story progress, we find the narrator empathize with the eel shop owner\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

\"eels1\"<\/p>\n

After reading the short story, I created an edge list consisting of two columns, eels stores and characters that the narrator interact with in corresponding store, representing my nodes. The connection between the store and character is depicted as \u201cedges\u201d to illustrate the interaction the narrator had with the said character at said store. I wanted to show the relationship between the narrator and the people she interacts with at the different stores, to illustrate any possible connection between each other. Ultimately, the readers can clearly see that the owner\u2019s wife both appeared in both stores. As someone looking at this particular network visualization without any context of the story, one can be very puzzled by this because we see that the connection is the store owner\u2019s wife of two different stores.<\/p>\n

\"eels2\"<\/p>\n

(note: I tried to embed the google fusion graph onto my blog post, but was very unsuccessful. So, here’s a snapshot!)<\/p>\n

In fact, spoiler, the narrator sees herself in the store owner\u2019s shoes, unhappy with her love life and struggles to be content with her partner. In the story, she eavesdrops the conversation between the store owner and his wife at the first eel store Isshin, noting the especially harsh tones and attacking language that’s not often displayed in public. As time progresses, she runs into the same woman at another store with what seems to be another eel chef. The narrator infers that the woman’s previous marriage was unsuccessful, which is later revealed that the previous husband eloped with another women. She empathizes with the store owner\u2019s wife because she sees herself unhappy with the 3 people she dated in her life. The story sheds some light as the narrator realizes that she should not compare herself to others as it may have been all in her head when she confronts the store owner\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

This network graph tells the audience quite a lot about the relationship between the narrator with these characters in the eel shops. However, upon closer inspection it only tells so much, that she ran into the same lady at the different stores, but it omits this powerful narrative disclosed in the paragraph above. Although this graph was very simple, I hope implement network graphs within my own digital humanities project to be able to make connections that may not have occurred to me before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For this network analysis assignment, I decided to create a network graph based off the characters from Misuyo Kakuta\u2019s short story, Bucket of Eels. Bucket of Eels implicitly tells a … Continue reading “Blog 7: Network Analysis and Eel Stores”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}