Booker Watch

Sample Results of a Digital Humanities Project on the Booker Prize in fiction

Uses Excel, MariaDB and Javascript.

Avg. # of Scholarly Pieces Written

 Total
Non-Winners9.1
Winners53.9
  
Average14.4

Percentage of Female Authors

 Total
Booker Non-Winners35.8%
Booker Winners44.4%
  
Grand Total36.8%

The Englishness of Booker Prize Winners

 Total
Booker Non-Winners43.3%
Booker Winners33.3%
  
Grand Total42.1%

The Frequency of Historical Novels as Booker Winners

 Total
Booker Non-Winners41.9%
Booker Winners62.5%
  
Grand Total44.3%

English and Non-English Authors: Prevalence of Race as a Significant Theme

 Total
Non-English25.00%
English18.75%
  
Grand Total22.37%

Female and Male Authors Prevalence of Female Protagonists

 Total
Male20.8%
Female64.3%
  
Grand Total36.8%

Female and Male Authors Prevalence of Gender as a Significant Theme

 Total
Male12.5%
Female35.7%
  
Grand Total21.1%