Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis

"Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis" with Brandon Walsh, PhD (University of Virginia Library), hosted by the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH) at the University of Houston's Arte Público Press/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program (Recovery). How do you get from a stack of books to a graph reflecting what’s inside them? What gets in the way? What research questions does the process enable? This workshop introduces participants to some foundational principles, practices and challenges when working with textual data. No programming experience required. Attendees will use Voyant as a vehicle to explore text analysis, but the workshop will create an experience beyond this one tool. The workshop will discuss the affordances and limitations of Voyant as a vehicle for exploring the opportunities and challenges of working with textual data.