Digital Humanities Initiative Event

Hi all!

I wanted to let you know about the Digital Humanities Initiative that is going on at UH right now.  I attended this kind of brainstorming/introduction conference/lunch last Spring to look at some of the ways we can work interdepartmentally to create a new focus on digital humanities at UH.  The amount of interest in digital humanities kind of spurred this initiative.

There is an upcoming event for the initiative on Friday, October 19th.  I just received an email this morning, and I'm going to paste the body of it in here.  If this particular event doesn't interest you, I'll try to keep you informed of other ones that might.  If you have any questions about this event or the initiative, please comment, and I'll send you their email address.  I didn't want to post it in here in case it gets mined and spammed or however that whole thing works.

Happy Friday!

-Lori

Upcoming Digital Humanities Event at the University of Houston

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DH Tools: Introduction to Text Analysis

Friday, October 19: 1:00-3:00pm in Library classroom 10G

What is computational analysis?

How could I use it for my research?

This workshop introduces participants to word2word software which provides a variety of tools for computational text analysis.

During the workshop, we will perform hands-on semantic analysis on three data sets:

1) a comparison between two academic reference works

2) a comparison of transcripts from speeches given at the Republican and Democratic national conventions

3) an analysis of a popular novel

The demonstrations will be followed by a free play session, and participants are encouraged to bring texts of their own (plain text files, PDFs, or web pages) to explore.

Computers with the necessary software will be available for use during the workshop.

Pre-registration for this free workshop is required by Wednesday, October 17 due to limited space.  Sign up here.