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How to read 14 million books (All about the HathiTrust Research Center)
The HathiTrust (http://hathitrust.org) is a collection of 14 million research library electronic texts digitized by Google, and this hands-on class teaches participants how to use computers to analyze these materials.
Sometimes called "distant" or "scalable" reading — forms of digital humanities research — this class demonstrates ways to literally count & tabulate the frequency of words in a text in order to find patterns & anomalies within it. Based on the resulting analysis, it is possible to more quickly learn what a corpus is about when compared to reading the corpus without the use of a computer. HathiTrust materials lend themselves quite easily to this sort of analysis.
There are no prerequisites, but participants may want to bring their own laptop to the session.
- DATE
- Friday, September 15, 2017
- TIME
- 12:00PM - 1:00PM
- PRESENTER
- Eric Lease Morgan
- CATEGORIES
- CDS | Text Mining & Analysis Workshops
Contact Info
Hesburgh Library
131 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-8604 | |
emorgan@nd.edu |
Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
hl-research-data-services-list@nd.edu | |
libguides.library.nd.edu/research-data-services |