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Text Data Analysis Workshop with Stuart Shulman
In this hands-on workshop led by founder Stuart Shulman, participants will learn to use DiscoverText, a multilingual-capable web-based platform for categorizing text data. DiscoverText runs through a graphical user interface, so no statistical or software programming (e.g., R, Python) is required. The workshop will teach participants how to use DiscoverText to label data to build custom […]
Meet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines
Digital Humanities is an emerging research area that combines the expansiveness of computing with traditional humanities methods. Text encoding technologies offer new ways of analyzing texts. Whether it’s a medieval manuscript or graphic novel, when rendered machine-readable and encoded in extensible markup language, the large quantities of data generated in the process provides researchers with […]