Monday, January 14, 2019
9:30 am - 10:30 am
247 Hesburgh Library, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
In this hands-on session, participants will learn 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 learn what a corpus is about more quickly than 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. Open to all faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate students.
Digital Initiatives Librarian
emorgan@nd.edu
Eric Morgan is the Digital Initiatives Librarian in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship. His current work focuses on assisting faculty and students with text mining and analysis. Though his work involves extensive computing expertise, Eric considers himself to be a librarian first, and a computer user second. His professional goal is to discover new ways to use computers to provide better library service. His research interests have included information retrieval, expert systems, and automated personalization.
MIS, 1987, Drexel University; B.A. Philosophy, 1982, Bethany College
For more information: http://www.nd.edu/~emorgan/
Julie Vecchio
Interim Co-Director, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
250I Hesburgh Library
