This half-day workshop will introduce participants to the field of stylometry. The participants will be acquainted with stylo, a package for the statistical programming environment R co-written by the instructor. This package is a way to avoid R’s steep learning curve so that humanists can easily perform advanced quantitative analyses of texts. While stylo has its own built-in visualization tools, the workshop will also introduce gephi, a piece of network analysis software. Time-permitting, the participants will be also challenged to perform their first own analyses on their own collections of texts or on those provided for them. No programming skills are required!
Participants are required to use their own laptops (and have access to install software). If you do not have a laptop and wish to borrow one during the workshop, please indicate this on the registration form (we have a very small number of these). If you want to get a head start before the workshop you may download and install R and Gephi (and check if they are functioning correctly on your computer).
- R: https://cran.r-project.org/
- (Mac/OSX users only): XQuartz: https://www.xquartz.org/
- Gephi: https://gephi.org/
- Download a sample text collection for first analysis: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjWxtkrEXCa7hPVFz9Aw1AKGsNrvkA
- Download a slideshow of more detailed instructions that will be used during the workshop: https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjWxtkrEXCa7h9wUQH8pOSaU1sYErA
Digital Research Across the Humanities 2019 