Learning Sessions offered by USC Libraries
Each semester, the Libraries offers online, live learning sessions or workshops for different topics. This year we are offering two introductory text analysis workshops and one on Voyant, a web browsing platform.
- Tuesday, September 12th at 1:15pm (1 hour, online workshop)Introduction to the basics and how to get started with text analysis
- Wednesday, September 13th at 2:20pm (1 hour, online workshop)Introduction to the basics and how to get started with text analysis
- Tuesday, November 7th at 10:05am (1 hour, online workshop)Simple text analysis with Voyant, an entry level tool
Constellate Events
JSTOR's Constellate offers events through out the year, Some upcoming events include:
- Wat Can you Do with Word Counts (Sept. 13)
- Introduction to Language Models (Sept. 20th)
- Python Basics (Oct. 16-20)
- Python Intensive (Oct. 23-27)
USC Columbia faculty and students may register for these on their site at https://constellate.org/events .
Tutorials
- Hermenuti.caA collaborative project by Stéfan Sinclair & Geoffrey Rockwell to think through computer-assisted text analysis for humanists. This site is a compantion to the book Hermeneutica book (MIT, 2016) and Voyant Tools. This site includes online versions of the practical interlude chapters from the book with dynamic panels from Voyant.
- Programming Historian TutorialsProvides basic, peer-reviewed tutorials on a wide range of digital tools for humanists
- PythonHumanitiesFree videos, notebooks, and course materials for learning Python and NLP. Created by William Mattingly
- Sage Text Mining Tutorials for Social ScientistsOne hour long video discussing the fundamentals of text mining, including research design, ethics, NLP, and tips on teaching to social science students
- The TDM Today Show! Episode 01Series of videos explaining text and data mining (TDM)
Instructions and Articles
- Gavin, Michael. (2023) Literary MathematicsLearn key concepts for the statitical analysis of corpus data, with examples and background discussion. Explore sample results, analysis, and demonstrations of computational literary analyses.