Prerequisites:
None
Overview:
Have you ever wanted a computer to help you examine word patterns in books, articles, or tweets? That’s text analysis! Text analysis uses statistical tools to understand and compare texts. For instance, text analysis can reveal how word usage changes over time or between authors, what words cluster together in genres or topics, what quotations are the most common, and when sentences and phrases are reused.
By using text analysis tools, we can explore patterns and anomalies across thousands of texts--or in a single document. This hands-on workshop will provide a basic grounding in text analysis using Voyant, a free website. It will focus on:
- when and how to use text analysis, and what pitfalls to avoid
- how to use Voyant to create a concordance, identify frequently occurring phrases, and see what terms co-occur
This workshop is under development, and the time, date, and content are tentative.
Contact information:
Please contact mrsmith@rice.edu if you have questions about the Data@Rice workshop series.