Preparation
This page is a companion to the Olin Workshop on 3/19 called Text Mining: Bootstrap Yourself!
Please do bring a laptop! If you have one, bring your own. If you do not have one, please feel free to check one out at the Olin circulation desk.
No special software will be needed. All exercises will be done through a Web browser, without any special plugins.
Agenda
Presentation
There will be a presentation (about 30 minutes) during which your questions and comments are welcome. My aim is to discuss as much as is useful to you. Please feel free to chime in at any time.
Exercises
There will be exercise time using Voyant, a low barrier tool that delivers a rich, interactive toolset. All exercises will be demonstrated.
The room is equipped with a jack to allow easy sharing of your desktop on the screen, so if you discover something that you would like to share and discuss, we can easily do so, and I will encourage that. Please feel free to bring your own material for upload and analysis to the workshop, understanding that upload of any material will be subject to the Voyant privacy policy.
If time, there will be exercise time using Google's nGram tool.