Preparing a Digital Corpus File (for 3/20/15 Paley Library Workshop)
Digital Humanities Resources (for 1/21/15 Temple U Workshop)
Online Stuff
Local Resources (Philadelphia)
Some Tools
Voyant Tools & Voyant Server
The most powerful entry-level tool, great for teaching. Voyant can visualize a text or a small corpus with text clouds, and comes with a variety of plug-ins to trace word connections, etc. Server version allows Voyant to handle a bigger corpus or a classroom, a little harder to get going.
Lexos
Web-based toolbox letting users split texts, alter punctuation, and apply user-created stopword and lemmas lists. Lexos also features textual analysis tools. Great for teaching.
Topic Modeling Tool
Get started quickly with an easy tool for topic modeling, great for teaching. In topic modeling, the computer analyzes the texts and pulls out words which it believes to be related, which the user can then analyze.
MALLET
A more flexible tool for topic modeling, great for research; requires use of the command line. Best way to get started is the tutorial Programming Historian: Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET. Use it for your installation to ensure that you've installed MALLET correctly.
R Studio
Good way to get started with coding, great for research. To begin, try using Text Analysis in R for Students of Literature. You'll need to buy or order this textbook, but it's short, targeted, and provides clear step-by-step lessons for those wishing to learn to use R for literary textual analysis.
- Twitter: @Ted_Underwood, @briancroxall, @PhillyDH, @nowviskie, @mkirschenbaum, @mljockers, @sramsay, @dhnow, @dancohen, @HybridPed, @miriamkp
- Blogs: Programming Historian, The Stone and the Shell
- Temple U Library Guides: DH Guide, Textual Analysis Guide (Beth’s guide!)
- Hastac
Local Resources (Philadelphia)
- Digital Humanities at Penn: Free “tools and techniques” lunches (register in advance), a one-day symposium each spring. --Update 11/12/15: This is now the Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
- PhillyDH: Weekly meet-ups, host THATCamp each fall (“unconference”).
- Temple’s Digital Scholarship Center: Still being built/designed, but keep an eye out.
- Center for the Humanities at Temple: Digital Humanities Fellowships (biweekly training plus small research grant, applications in early September), and DH speaker series in spring '15.
Some Tools
Voyant Tools & Voyant Server
The most powerful entry-level tool, great for teaching. Voyant can visualize a text or a small corpus with text clouds, and comes with a variety of plug-ins to trace word connections, etc. Server version allows Voyant to handle a bigger corpus or a classroom, a little harder to get going.
Lexos
Web-based toolbox letting users split texts, alter punctuation, and apply user-created stopword and lemmas lists. Lexos also features textual analysis tools. Great for teaching.
Topic Modeling Tool
Get started quickly with an easy tool for topic modeling, great for teaching. In topic modeling, the computer analyzes the texts and pulls out words which it believes to be related, which the user can then analyze.
MALLET
A more flexible tool for topic modeling, great for research; requires use of the command line. Best way to get started is the tutorial Programming Historian: Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET. Use it for your installation to ensure that you've installed MALLET correctly.
R Studio
Good way to get started with coding, great for research. To begin, try using Text Analysis in R for Students of Literature. You'll need to buy or order this textbook, but it's short, targeted, and provides clear step-by-step lessons for those wishing to learn to use R for literary textual analysis.