1832 Journal of Cultural Analytics 2371-4549 Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University Website: Journal of Cultural Analytics 22335 10.22148/001c.22335 Article Introduction: Contemporary Culture After Data Science So Richard Jean 20 4 2021 2021 6 2 Post-45 by the Numbers 22335 1 11 2020 1 1 2021 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This essay introduces the articles found in this special joint issue of Post-45 and the Journal of Cultural Analytics, “Post-45 by the Numbers.” It foregrounds the affordances of computational methods for the study of contemporary culture and literature, and offers brief summaries of each of the eight essays that follow in this special issue.

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