The Hotel New Hampshire, a data-art project

Creating a visualization on the “data” of a book was always an idea I had in the back of my mind. And I always knew which writer I would choose because I am a big fan of his writing-style and his stories: John Irving. His books are full of colourful characters (often gays and/or trans are included) and the stories take you down a swirling path of events, which can feel as a rollercoaster of emotions. Disturbing, heart-breaking, unavoidably sad and luckily sometimes glorious moments. The book I chose, Hotel New Hampshire (from 1981) is the first one of John Irving I read, after that many followed. I remember the movie adaption vaguely but I do know it starred Rob Lowe, Jodie Foster and Nastassja Kinski.
So here you find my dataviz/dataart project on the Hotel New Hampshire. The characters from the book were the starting point for my visualizations: I counted the number of actions they carried out and the words they spoke.