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Textual analysis and distant reading with Voyant tools

Textual analysis and distant reading with Voyant tools Online

This workshop will focus on textual analysis using the “Voyant Tools” open source, web-based application. Voyant tools allows us to analyze multiple texts from any authors, and to identify text patterns and links between specific words in an efficient manner.  This provides us with new information that might otherwise have been overlooked in close reading, thus opening the texts to new lines of inquiry.

We will discuss textual analysis, the concept of distant reading, and discuss how they help with research. Then we will use Voyant Tools to identify term frequencies, contexts and relations in a specific corpus of works, which will provide us with new perspectives with which to identify areas of interest and formulate questions.

 

Date:
April 5, 2021
Time:
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Host:
Library & Information Technology Services
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  Faculty     Staff     Students  
Categories:
  Digital Scholarship  
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Event Organizer

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Laura Surtees

Research and Instruction Librarian

Coordinator Rhys Carpenter Library

Contact: lsurtees@brynmawr.edu