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Data Services Class Descriptions

Information, materials, and schedules for all currently offered Data Services classes.

Starting with Computational Text Analysis

An introductory class to Computational Text Analysis in R for primarily the social sciences and humanities.
Software: R and RStudio
Duration: 120 min

Room description:

Some tutorials are held remotely and require NYU sign on to access, while others are held in person, without a remote component. Please note the correct modality and location of the tutorial when registering.

Prerequisites:
  • Basic computer literacy for Windows or for Mac
  • Understanding file paths
  • Ability to load data into R from a .csv
  • Ability to load an R package
  • Understanding of the names and uses of different object types in R
  • Some exposure to RStudio and the Tidyverse is preferable
Skills Taught / Learning Outcomes:
  • What is CTA?
  • Text as Data
  • Text corpus construction
  • Cleaning data 
  • Dictionary methods, sorting, and counting 
  • Overview of useful R packages 
Class Materials:
Related Classes:
Additional Training Materials:

Data Services Qualitative Data Analysis and Text Data Mining pages

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