Hesburgh Libraries

Introduction to Text Mining

Thursday, March 22, 2018

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

129 Hesburgh Library, Center for Digital Scholarship

Workshop Overview

This hands-on workshop shows participants the benefits of using computers to analyze textual corpora, such as a collection of books or journal articles.

Sometimes called "distant" or "scalable" reading, text mining—a form of digital humanities research—is a way to count and tabulate the frequency of words or phrases in a text in order to find patterns and anomalies within it. Based on the resulting analysis, it is possible to more quickly learn what a corpus is about when compared to reading the corpus without the use of a computer.

There are no prerequisites, but participants may want to bring their own laptop to the session.

Instructor

Eric Lease Morgan, Digital Initiatives Librarian
emorgan@nd.edu

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