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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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Thinking Through Word Embeddings

Babble Lab @ Pace University, Room 1105 163 William St., New York, NY, United States

Word embeddings are a family of algorithms that can be remarkably effective at representing the meanings of words, and their relationships to each other. We'll cover the basics of word embeddings: what they do, how to train a model using word2vec, and how to use them to search for synonyms and analogies. And we'll look […]

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Analyzing Twitter Data for Beginners

Fordham Lincoln Center, Quinn Library Room 234 113 W 60th Street, New York, NY, United States

Interested in analyzing conversations on Twitter but don’t know where to start? This workshop will demonstrate how to use TAGS <https://tags.hawksey.info/get-tags/>, an open source tool developed by Martin Hawksey to collect and visualize Twitter data as it happens. Aimed at novice users, this session will experiment with small datasets generated from Twitter conversations under specific […]

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Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

Interested in incorporating social media content into your qualitative research project? This workshop will introduce the basics of using small-scale web scraping of social media for qualitative analysis. Using NCapture, a web browser extension, and NVivo, a qualitative analysis software package, this session will focus on methods to incorporate the context from web pages, online […]

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R for Text Analysis

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

In this workshop, we will use R for text analysis, with a focus on the Tidy Text approach within the Tidytext framework. Your insights will be visualized and can also be turned into an interactive without any web coding skills, using Shiny R. The workshop is open to anyone with an interest in this topic. […]

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Word Embeddings: Can Vectors Encode Meaning?

Columbia University, CEPSR, Room 620 530 West 120th Street, New York, NY, United States

Word embeddings, or vector representations of words, are commonly used in computer science to work with and analyze text. They are particularly useful as a powerful off-the-shelf tool when using open-source word embeddings previously generated by Google, Facebook, or other technology companies based on web crawls. We present the background and justifications for using vectors […]

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Text as Data in the Humanities

Bobst Library, NYU, Room 617 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

An introduction to text analysis for literature with a foundational overview of considerations for approaching computational text analysis in the humanities. This workshop will cover a) gathering text corpus, b) copyright considerations c) data cleaning, d) an introduction to the computational software tools e) reading the output and analysis that may include word frequencies, cluster […]

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Advanced Topics in Word Embeddings

Studio@Butler 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY, United States

Word embeddings are the hottest new technology in natural language processing, and are used across linguistic computer science, from machine translation to information extraction and computational literary analysis. We will cover advanced topics in word embeddings, including: document similarity analysis, nearest-neighbor analysis, training vector spaces, and visualization. We will use literary texts as examples, but […]

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Intro to the Command Line

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

Learn how to use the command line to perform basic tasks. We’ll begin by discussing why humanists would want to learn something so technical, then jump into learning how to create and edit files and directories. Knowledge of the command line can be applied in many contexts, including several of the other workshops offered this […]

Free

What matters to your Congressperson?

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

What topics most preoccupy your member of Congress? Are those the sorts of things you prioritize? In this workshop users will learn how to navigate a database of Congress to constituent e-newsletters and how to perform text analyses in R to get a top level core of what members of Congress most focus on in […]

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