Spring 2018 Workshops (View on Calendar)
All Digital Scholarship Workshops are held in the Visualization Studio.
The Visualization Studio is on the second floor of Poage Library. The entrance to Poage Library (map) is accessible on the Castellaw side of Baylor Avenue between Moody and Jones Libraries.
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REGISTER TITLE: Using JSTOR for Digital Humanities: The Baptist Scholarship Response to Civil Rights DESCRIPTION: Learn how to mine text from JSTOR articles to measure attitudes towards civil rights in research focusing on Baptists. Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn how to analyze the text surrounding various ethnicities to measure the valence (pleasantness), arousal (intensity of emotion), and dominance (degree of control) inherent in words. Participants will also learn how to use Zotero to download JSTOR articles. No prior experience with digital humanities, text analysis, Zotero, or JSTOR use is required. Open to the entire Baylor community. LAPTOPS: Laptops with the following open source and free software will be provided for use during the workshop:
PLACE: Visual Studio Contributors:
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REGISTER TITLE: Mining & Analyzing Social Media Content: Using Tweets and Posts to Gauge Consumer Sentiment DESCRIPTION: Learn how to extract content from Twitter to analyze language and sentiment, and to calculate various Facebook metrics, such as: like rates, share rates, and comment rates. Participants in this hands-on workshop will explore the effect of Apple’s marketing campaigns and its iPhone sales. Workshop participants will navigate through prepared Jupyter Notebooks to analyze and visualize these metrics and relationships. No prior experience with social media mining or metrics, text analysis, or data visualizations are required. Open to the entire Baylor community. LAPTOPS: Laptops with the following open source and free software will be provided for use during the workshop:
PLACE: Visual Studio Contributors:
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Baylor History Department & Baylor Libraries Present: TITLE: Fuzzy Bible References: Finding that Needle in the Haystack DESCRIPTION: Ever wonder how many times your favorite author referenced the Bible? Participants in this hands-on workshop will learn how to automatically identify fuzzy quotations (fuzzy = not word-for-word) from one text (or group of texts) to the Bible (or any other text). Workshop participants will learn how to calculate the Levenshtein distance (difference or distance between two phrases) to identify possible Bible references. No prior experience with any text analysis techniques or Bible research is required. Open to the entire Baylor community. LAPTOPS: Laptops with the following open source and free software will be provided for use during the workshop:
PLACE: Visual Studio Contributors:
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