# Text (as) data: digital tools and methods for text analysis

This document is a companion to the NEH CARES **DH Workshops "Text (as) Data: Digital Tools and Methods for Text Analysis"**. It is meant as a live, collaborative, notes document that will provide context, present examples, and key concepts in digital tools and methods for creating, compiling, and analyzing texts.

Instructor:
Dimitris C. Papadopoulos, NEH CARES DH Instructional Technologist, Division of Humanities and the Arts, the City College of New York

> *The NEH CARES DH workshop sessions and accompanying materials
> have been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES
>
> Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this workshop
> do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Introduction
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- [Scope and objective](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_scope)
- [Outline](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_outline)
- [Scope and objective (slides)](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_scope_slides)
- [Outline (slides)](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_outline_slides)
- [Downloads: sample texts, datasets, tools](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_downloads)
- [Code of conduct](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_conduct)
- [References](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_references)
- [Acknowldgements](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_acknowledgements)

Foundations: creating and compiling text data
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- [Seeing text as data (slides)](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_seeing_slides)
- [Seeing text as data](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_seeing)
- [Compiling](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_compiling)
- [Creating](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_creating)
- [Comparing ](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_comparing)
- [Data cleaning](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_cleaning)
- [Data cleaning (slides)](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_cleaning_slide)
- [Enhancing](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_enhancing)
- [Group session: thinking about text datasets](**https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_group_datasets)

Patterns and insights: tools for quantitative text analysis
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- [Knowing your data: analysis and visualization as data exploration](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_exploring)
- [Knowing your data (slides)](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_exploring_slide)
- [Frequencies, clusters, collocates: some key terms](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_frequencies)
- [Analyzing texts with AntConc](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_antconc)
- [Analyzing texts with Voyant](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_voyant)
- [Group session: using quantified texts](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_group_quantifying_texts)

Graphs and networks: visualizing texts
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- [A (very) brief introduction to topic modeling](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_topic_modeling)
- [A (very) brief introduction to Natural Language Processing](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_nlp)

Sustainable texts: collaboration and sustainability in text analysis and publishing projects
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- [Sustainability questions and solutions](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_sustainable)
- [Group session: planning digital editions and text analysis projects](https://hackmd.io/@dimaterialist/text_data_group_sustainable)

###### tags: `text analysis` `digital humanities`