UNL's Associate Professor of English, Matthew Jockers collaborates with Jodie Archer, former acquisitions editor for Penguin Books UK, on a data science project to create a predictive algorithm for literary analysis.
Their research, " Tool Identifies Traits of Literary Blockbusters", summarized in their book, "The Bestseller Code" is highlighted in the Research at Nebraska, 2016-2017 report:
http://research.unl.edu/annualreport/2017/tool-identifies-traits-of-literary-blockbusters/