Hi all, If anyone is interested, I put together a Software Carpentry-style 'text as data' workshop for Social Scientists. Latest version here. <https://github.com/rochelleterman/FSUtext> It uses R. Feel free to adapt.
Cheers, Rochelle On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 3:54 PM Dav Clark <davcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am starting to think about my own text-oriented workshop for social > scientists that would use Gigantum to help support beginners thinking more > about big-picture aspects of data projects. From there, we'd transition to > explain how you could do similar things "by hand" (e.g. using git + LFS > directly). > > Ziyaad did you ever create an NLP working group? In any case, I'm happy to > contribute to core carpentry-style materials (and I can easily adapt them > to my own purposes later). And of course, if anyone wants to do stuff with > Gigantum, I'm excited to help with that! But my sense is that this > community is pretty committed to the command line ;) > > In terms of concepts, I'm interested in things that will help learners > grok general ideas. So, understanding the transformation of texts to a > matrix of frequency counts, perhaps some basics of what a matrix is, and > what you can do with linear systems, and perhaps also the idea of an > abstract "space" like word2vec. > > And as far as tools, I'm happy to do R or Python (and use RStudio or > Jupyter). I see one vote for Spacy - so if that's a way to get someone > on-board that sounds good to me! I've not done NLP for a few years, and > spacy looks like magical python easy (cf. XKCD <https://xkcd.com/353/>). > > Best, > Dav > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 9:11 AM <ba...@staffmail.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> just to let you know ... I'm planning to prepare a carpentries style >> course on text mining... which is a type of NLP (i.e. Natural Language >> Processing). :-) >> >> Bea Alex (Edinburgh) >> > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tee8f460df4206334-Mb454b7276b0ab684e86d462c> > -- Rochelle Terman, Ph.D. Provost Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Political Science University of Chicago http://www.rochelleterman.com ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tee8f460df4206334-M57efa7254ba1e0cb07d357da Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
