Text Analysis in R: Exploring Banned Books Online
Offered in recognition of Banned Books Week, this three-part hands-on workshop series introduces participants to text analysis using R, with a focus on exploring banned literature through data. Participants will learn how to process, explore, and model textual data, using examples drawn from frequently challenged or banned books and related discourse.
This is a three-part workshop series (please register for each session separately):
- Part 1: Fundamentals of Text Analysis with Tidytext
- Part 2: Topic Modeling with LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation)
- Part 3: Advanced Topic Modeling with STM (Structural Topic Model)
- Date:
- Friday, October 10, 2025
- Time:
- 9:30am - 10:30am
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- Virtual Workshop
- Audience:
- Alumni Faculty Pittsburgh community Staff Students
- Categories:
- Artificial Intelligence Digital Humanities Information & Data Literacy CC Open Science Working With Data and Code
- Online:
- This is a virtual event. A URL to participate will be sent via a reminder email 24 hours before the event.
Virtual Workshop Information:
- The link to join this event will be found in your confirmation email and in the reminder email sent 24 hours before the event.
- Please join a few minutes early to ensure that your audio setup is working correctly.
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