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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
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Eric Lease Morgan

Hesburgh Library
131 Hesburgh Library
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

(574) 631-8604
emorgan@nd.edu
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