Readings
- Alan Bey Riddell, “How to Read 22,198 Journal Articles: Studying the History of German Studies with Topic Models,” in Distant Readings: Topologies of German Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Matt Erlin and Lynne Tatlock, 91–114. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. PDF of article
- Tim Hitchcock, “Confronting the Digital,” Cultural and Social History 10, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 9–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/147800413X13515292098070.
Other readings in Zotero
Activities
Morning (9:00am to 12:00pm)
- Discuss the Readings
- Digital Methods: Search, finding aids, and distant reading
- 10:30 Break (15 minutes)
- Hands-on: Working with Voyant (voyant-tools.org); Getting Started documentation
- Run Voyant Server on your own computer:
http://docs.voyant-tools.org/resources/run-your-own/voyant-server/; - https://github.com/sgsinclair/VoyantServer/releases/tag/2.0
- Run Voyant Server on your own computer:
Lunch (12:00 to 1:00pm)
Afternoon (1:00pm to 4:00pm)
- Digital Methods: Naive approaches to text corpora
- 2:15 Break (15 minutes)
- Hands-on: Topic Modeling with LDA (jupyter.chnm.org)
- Discussion: Teaching Applications