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Qualitative Data Analysis: Text as Data Workshop

This guide provides information and guidance for researchers interested in conducting qualitative data analysis.

Text as Data Workshop

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An introduction to the text analysis for literature with basic introduction to software packages. This workshop is an introduction to working with text as data in the humanities. This workshop will cover:

  • gathering text corpora,
  • copyright considerations
  • data cleaning,
  • an introduction to some computational software tools,
  • reading the output and analysis of topic modeling and cluster analysis, and
  • general overview of common questions asked in computational literary studies.

Presented with grateful consultation from Dr. David Hoover, NYU English Department. 

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Staffed Hours: Spring 2023
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Class Materials

Bibliography

  • A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 
  • Cordell, Ryan. “‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously,” Book History 20 (2017), 188-225.
  • Eder, Maciej, Jan Rybicki, and Mike Kestemont. “Stylometry with R: A Package for Computational Text Analysis.” The R Journal, 2016, 8(1): 107-21.
  • Fish, Stanley. “Mind Your P’s and B’s: The Digital Humanities and Interpretation,” The New York Times, January 23, 2012.
  • Hoover, David L. “Argument, Evidence, and the Limits of Digital Humanities,” from Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2016.
  • Hoover, David L., “Modes of Composition in Henry James: Dictation, Style, and What Maisie Knew,” Henry James Review 35(3), 2014: 257-77. 
  • Hoover, David L. “Textual Analysis,” in the MLA volume Literary Studies in the Digital Age.
  • Nair, Goutam. “Text Mining 101.” KDnuggets: Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science, KDnuggets, July 2016.
  • Graham, Shawn, et al. “Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET.” Programming Historian, 2 Sept. 2012. 
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