A Quantitative Look at Violence in Religious Texts

This is the code used for the analysis done for my blog post on violence in religious text.

Requirements

You'll need Leiningen to build the project and run the notebook, and wget to obtain the data.

This project also uses the gg4clj library, which requires an installation of R, along with the ggplot2 package.

Running the Notebook

As step one, you need a landing point for the images.

mkdir images

Next get the data. There's a shell script in resources/ that handles this for you. From project root:

cd resources/
chmod u+x get_data.sh
./get_data.sh

It takes a few minutes. Once it's done you can launch the notebook with Leiningen.

lein gorilla

From the GorillaREPL you can open the notebook file and run it.

The main function converts the notebook to markdown. Run it with

lein run

It'll overwrite the file violence-in-religious-text.md in the root directory of the project.

There are also unit tests for the markdown conversion.

lein test

will run them.