This is a panel paper for “Critical Computation: What’s Next?” This paper discusses an unpublished aspect of the article “The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction,” published in Cultural Analytics in 2018. In this paper I discuss ways in which we (Ted Underwood, David Bamman, and I) tried to explain the decline of women writers in HathiTrust from 1800 to 1960, other silences we found, and invisible labor.