Text and Data Mining for the Humanities: Gale Digital Scholar Lab workshop

This participatory workshop will explore tools for textual analysis and data mining available through the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. You may already be familiar with the Gale online archives – such as Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, the Times Digital Archive or the Archives of Sexuality and Gender, all of which are available through the Brotherton Library. Now, through use of the Digital Scholar Lab, these archives can be studied in brand-new ways.

Join Chris Houghton, Head of Academic Partnerships at Gale, to get hands-on with these tools to explore their potential for research and research-led teaching. Members of the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub (DCCH) and the Digital Education Service (DES) will be on hand to discuss further support for digital humanities in research and teaching.

Who is it for?

This workshop is aimed at staff and PGRs in Arts, Humanities and Cultures and cognate disciplines who are new to the Digital Scholar Lab (or who want to refresh their knowledge).

What will it involve?

Workshop participants will be guided through getting started with the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, including:

• Creating a user account
• Creating a dataset around a research question
• Cleaning the dataset
• Text-mining and analysis of the dataset
• Where to get further support with digital humanities methods in research/teaching

Pre-requisites: none

Equipment required: eduroam-enabled laptop or tablet

How to register: please fill in the registration form (UoL login required)