Franco Moretti in “Models for an Abstract Literary History” focuses on analyzing techniques of reading.The author suggests different ways to improve and encourage reading using quantitative approach.Moretti believes, that there is no such thing as “close reading”. He said “A canon of two hundred novels , for instance, sounds very large for nineteenth century Britain and close reading won’t help here”(68). The author’s main argument, is that the best approach into analyzing and understanding better literature  is having data, results,  graph, maps, something that allows interpretation. He defines Quantitative research ,as a “type of data which is ideally independent of interpretations”. His arguments are persuasive because after reading the article, I’ve realized that he made interesting points. For instance we usually use graphs , etc in our science  projects or sometimes to compare events in History. Using this in literature is also effective and I find using graphs easier to understand or interpret.His arguments about  novels history is crucial  because it’s  illustrates the concept of “3 rises of a book” . The first which he mentioned is rapid growth, the second is stabilization and finally the social role of the novel.I think it’s very important to know the history of a book , his rates and how others views it.His arguments regarding novel’s history requires graph to provide a ver well detailed  view of the 3 aspects he  mentioned.

Furthermore, the most appealing graph is  figure 10 . Through this graph, I’ve learned and understood the idea of “periodization”, how to  divide 2  historical phases and analyze the duration in years using bar graphs or histograms. Moreover from the information “is beautiful site”, the 2 visualizations that i’ve picked are : Hans Rosling’s(The world’s greatest data storyteller) and Mountains out of Molehill’s. The Hans Rosling’s  graph was also effective because he focuses on analyzing “lifespan” and “income” in the year of 2012. I’ve  learned  how to interpret data from different perspectives.  From the mountain’s graph i’ve learned  from 2000-2015 what were the media’s inflamed fears such as “threats of bird flu, “Sars quarantine in China”,  and the most highest fear on the graph was the “Ebola disease”. I think the graph is really effective in providing a better timeline that illustrates this concept of “inflamed fears by media”.In less than 5 min , I was able to understand and interpret the whole purpose of the graph. In contrast, if this was  provided in essays or paragraphs forms without data , it’s will take longer to process the informations and to make analysis.