Lots of discussion about whether the '7 common plots' are an artifact of the low pass filter he used. https://annieswafford.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/continuings

Lots of discussion about whether the '7 common plots' are an artifact of the low pass filter he used. https://annieswafford.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/continuingsyuzhet/ https://annieswafford.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/continuingsyu... Both sides also seem to acknowledge that the sentiment analyzers chosen don't work well for literature. Junk data + lowpass filter = Beautiful curves generated from noise.