This dataset contains the supplementary data files for the book Martin Paul Eve, Close Reading With Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell’s_ Cloud Atlas (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Data appendices are detailed in Appendix B, in the volume and also below. Digital Appendix 1: Data for Chapter Two This appendix is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file that is used to generate Figure 2 using the SankeyTextualVariant software. Digital Appendix 2: Data for Chapter Three This appendix contains: * The data used to generate figures 5 through 13. * The data used to make the claims about Melville’s texts. * The part-of-speech tagging outputs of Cloud Atlas E. Digital Appendix 3: Data for Chapter Four This appendix contains the data used to generate figures 14 through 16.