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Introduction to Programming with Python

CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBD 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBD, New York, NY, United States

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of programming using Python, a language popular in both academia and the commercial world. Topics will include basic programming concepts such as loops, variables, and conditionals, installing and importing libraries, and creating simple scripts. No previous programming experience is necessary. This workshop will be led by GC Digital Fellows Ian [...]

Social Media Scraping with the Twitter API

CUNY Graduate Center, Room TBD 365 Fifth Avenue, Room TBD, New York, NY, United States

This workshop will introduce the Twitter API, a way of programmatically interacting with the Twitter platform, and will place a particular emphasis on gathering data for textual, sociological, or linguistic analysis. Some knowledge of Python will be helpful, but is not strictly necessary. This workshop will be led by GC Digital Fellows Patrick Smyth and [...]

Machine Learning for the Study of Literary and Historical Corpora

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United States

Depending on participant interest, this workshop will discuss either (1) principal component analysis or (2) word embeddings as a technique for exploring large digitized corpora, with particular emphasis on applications to literary and historical study. The workshop will be conducted using Jupyter notebooks in Python. No prior experience with Python is assumed, but elementary knowledge [...]

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Advanced Text Analysis with SpaCy and Scikit-Learn

NYU XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Enagement, Conference Room 24 E 8th St., New York, NY, United States

This workshop is an introduction to the Python module SpaCy, a new library for natural language processing written in Cython, and Scikit-Learn, a library for machine learning. It is intended for intermediate to advanced Python programmers who are familiar with natural language processing suites such as the NLTK, and who are ready to explore next-generation […]

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Building a Text Analysis Pipeline with Python

Pace University, 1 Pace Plaza, E101 1 Pace Plaza, New York

This workshop will show participants how to use the Python and the Natural Language Toolkit to load a plaintext document, split it into paragraphs/sentences/words, and retrieve dictionary headwords and part-of-speech information for the words in the document. We will then create charts and visualizations for the feature counts. LEVEL: Beginner/Intermediate NOTES: Bring personal laptop; required […]

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Simple JavaScript Mapping

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

A gentle introduction to JavaScript and manipulating webpages with the goal of making a map in Leaflet. LEVEL: Beginner NOTES: Bringing a personal laptop is suggested.

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Make a Simple Webmap with Leaflet

Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

Learn to make a website from scratch that features a simple webmap with Leaflet. Prerequisites: HTML and JavaScript knowledge is useful but not required. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code.   Lehman Library 215 SIPA building 420 W 118th

Free

NLP for non-data scientists – Event Extraction

Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, United States

The amount of text data available is mind-boggling. We will explore programatic approaches to identify information about what happened and when it happened by gathering knowledge from text. Equipment: Python, Anaconda, Laptop Prerequisites: Working familiarly with Python  

Free

Simple CV

Studio Lehman, Lehman Social Sciences Library 420 W 118th St, Room 215 International Affairs Building , New York, NY

Create a PDF and HTML CV for yourself out of plain text files and set up a free personal CV website. Equipment Requirements: Attendees should bring their own laptop and pre-install Visual Studio Code.  

Free

Working with Open Data – intro to APIs

Columbia (Butler Library room 208B) 535 West 114th St, New York, NY, United States

There is so much data out on the web, knowing how to use APIs will let you explore and collect data in a reliable and efficient way. We will use Python to get data from New York Times archive. Equipment: Laptop, Anaconda Prerequisites: Familiarity with Python and Anaconda    

Free

Introduction to Arabic Text Processing with Python and CAMeL Tools

Virtual NY, United States

This workshop introduces the basics of Arabic text processing. The workshop consists of two parts. We first introduce the basic challenges and common tasks associated with Arabic natural language processing. We then present CamelTools, a Python Open-Source toolkit for Arabic processing that addresses the challenges and targets the tasks. The second part of the workshop […]

Python – A Gentle Introduction

Online New York, NY, United States

A very beginner friendly introduction to Python for the humanities. We will cover basic tools and installation methods, as well as how Python can be used to sort through messy information and automate simple and repetitive tasks. Brief examples will be covered, and we'll talk about how to explore and learn in the future. There […]

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