Logistics of the Class
Faculty, librarians, staff, and students at institutions participating in the beta evaluation of Constellate may attend our Introduction to Text Analytics course, taught by Nathan Kelber. It is an 8-session, 4-week course. We will run identical sessions (morning and afternoon) on Tuesdays and Thursdays in May. This class is open to anyone on your campus with an interest and we encourage you to advertise the class.
If you have not registered, please do so, to ensure you get follow-up emails about the workshop
The sessions will start at 10 am and 3:30 pm Eastern (see below for time conversions) and the Zoom link for each class is below. Recordings are just below the schedule!
Week | Day | Topic/Notebook | Approximate Length | Morning Zoom | Afternoon Zoom |
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Week 4 | Tue, May 25 | Significant Terms (TF-IDF) | 75 minutes | May 25 @ 10 am EDT Zoom | May 25 @ 3:30 pm EDT Zoom |
Thu, May 27 | Topic Modeling (LDA) | 75 minutes | May 27 @ 10 am EDT Zoom | May 27 @ 3:30 pm EDT Zoom |
You are welcome to attend either session on each day.
Please note, we are going to record all sessions so we can make them available to attendees of the course and they will be posted below after each class. We may also publicly share the recording of the afternoon session. Feel free to log in with the video off and use a pseudonym when entering the session (email addresses are not visible in the recordings). We will not publicly share the morning session with people who did not sign-up for the class.
Recordings
Nathan Kelber
Nathan is the Community Engagement Lead for JSTOR Labs and the director of the Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute. In addition to his teaching role with Constellate, he has taught text analysis and digital humanities courses at the University of Maryland, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wayne State University.
Time Zone Conversions
For you convenience, some common time zone conversions for our sessions are below, but please double check for yourself!
10 am EDT Session | 3:30 pm EDT Session |
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9 am in Chicago | 2:30 pm in Chicago |
7 am in Tucson | 12:30 pm in Tucson |
7 am in San Francisco | 12:30 pm in San Francisco |
3 pm in London | 8:30 pm in London |
7:30 pm in New Delhi | 1 am in New Delhi (next day) |
10 pm in Manila | 3:30 am in Manila (next day) |
Midnight in Sydney | 5:30 am in Sydney (next day) |