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Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis
March 31, 2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am Central Daylight Time
Join the US Latino Digital Humanities Center for the virtual workshop, “Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis” with Brandon Walsh, PhD (University of Virginia Library) on March 31, from 10:00–11:30 AM CDT.
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.
Spaces limited, RSVP at: https://bit.ly/booknumbergraph.
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About the Presenter
Brandon Walsh is Head of Student Programs in the Scholars’ Lab in the University of Virginia Library. Prior to that, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Mellon Digital Humanities Fellow in the Washington and Lee University Library. He received his PhD and MA from the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where he also held fellowships in the Scholars’ Lab and acted as Project Manager of NINES. His primary research focuses on digital humanities pedagogy, looking at the ways it can reflect and enact infrastructural change in higher education. He serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. He was a regular instructor at HILT, and has work published or forthcoming with Programming Historian; Insights; The Digital Library Pedagogy Cookbook, Pedagogy; Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities; and Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, among others.
