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- Please bring a laptop to support your explorations! Bring your own or 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.
- Suggested Reading Read
- The first three sections of Text-mining in Wikipedia. This will give us a common orientation to text analytics.
- Ted Underwood's blogpost "Seven ways humanists are using computers to understand text"
- Matt Jockers blogpost "A Novel Method for Detecting Plot"
- The first three sections of Text-mining in Wikipedia. This will give us a common orientation to text analytics.
- Bring text samples to explore with Voyant. Format can be plain text, PDF (with OCR), MS Word Document or URL (for analysis of web pages). Upload of material will be subject to the Voyant privacy policy, so bring text you can safely share.
- Look through this lesson plan, develop your questions - and bring them to class.
- Optionally - the intrepid may want to obtain a login to the HTRC Portal, create a workset and run a few algorithms in advance of this lecture. Documentation for obtaining a sign-on and documentation for the portal will be helpful.
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