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Text Analysis Tasting Menu: A Sampling of Available Tools Online
Are you interested in analyzing large bodies of texts, or teaching text analysis in your class? Not sure what tools are available for you to use? Join us to learn about some of the major tools for text analysis at the University of Toronto. This “Tasting Menu” workshop will introduce participants to the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, Constellate, Proquest TDM Studio Visualizations and Workbench, and the Hathi Trust Research Centre’s Algorithms and Data Capsule.
This session will include a brief introduction to each tool, outlining the type of interface and what collections are included. It will provide an overview on how to access each tool and create an account. Via a live demo, participants will learn how to build a custom dataset for analysis, upload their own texts or code, select and run analyses, export results, and, when possible, collaborate on projects with others.
This workshop will also include an introduction to text analysis, and tips on how to select the appropriate tool for your use case. A summary table will be distributed to attendees, along with links to further resources for those wishing to explore a particular tool in more detail.
Map & Data Library workshops, such as this one, are a welcoming and inclusive environment for learning. To learn more, check out our Code of Conduct.
A link to join the event online will be sent to registrants.
Prerequisites:
- No requirements beyond basic familiarity with spreadsheets
Not needed:
- You do not need to know how to code for this workshop
- You do not need statistics or math for this workshop
- You do not need to install anything for this workshop – everything takes place in your internet browser
- Date:
- Wednesday, September 28, 2022
- Time:
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- St. George (Downtown) Campus
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Categories:
- Data & Statistics Digital Tools Programming & Software
Event Organizer
Kara Handren (she/her) is a Data Librarian at the Map & Data Library. She has an MA (History) and MI, both from UofT.
She supports Data Discovery, Text & Data Mining (TDM), and Data Cleaning and Analysis
Dr. Nick Field (they/them) is the Data Support Specialist at the Map and Data Library. They help researchers and students find and work with geospatial, numeric, and textual data.
They also have a great love for maps of all kinds, and wrote their doctoral dissertation on archaeological maps of the Silk Road. Feel free to email Nick with questions about U of T's map collection!
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