Wednesday, August 28, 2019
11:00am – Noon
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 is a way to analyze words or phrases in a text 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 in a more traditional manner.
There are no prerequisites, but participants will 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
