Explore text analysis and Constellate this summer at no cost
Hello ~ The ability to read, understand, and communicate data as information is fast becoming essential for education and employment. Through July 31, you are invited to get a jump start on your skills-or advance them to a new level-for free with Constellatehttps://constellate.org/, a service from not-for-profit ITHAKA that provides all the tools for proficiency in data analysis and digital literacy. This summer, you may build a dataset, visualize a dataset (did you know that "mother" occurs considerably more frequently than "father" in scholarly literature about the foster care system?), and even work in the Constellate Lab using our Jupyter Notebooks or your own (a feature usually only available to individuals at participating institutions.) To launch you on your explorations of text analysis and Constellate, we are offering six hour-long webinars every Tuesday at noon EDT: * June 21: Introduction to Constellatehttps://constellate.org/events/introduction-to-constellate-open-summer-of-te... * June 28: Constellate, the Technologyhttps://constellate.org/events/constellate-the-technology-open-summer-of-tex... * July 5: Considerations when Building a Good Dataset for Text Analysishttps://constellate.org/events/considerations-in-building-a-good-dataset-for... * July 12: What Can You Do with Word Counts?https://constellate.org/events/what-can-you-do-with-word-counts-constellate-... * July 19: Topic Modeling Togetherhttps://constellate.org/events/topic-modelling-together-open-summer-of-text-... * July 26: Introduction to the Constellate Trial and Participation Packageshttps://constellate.org/events/introduction-to-the-constellate-trial-and-par... You may even take in our four-session "Introduction to Python" course by working in the Constellate Lab alongside a recording of the classhttps://constellate.org/events/acrl. Take advantage of this summer to introduce yourself to text analysis for free and consider how to bring these skills to your campus, help researchers, and collaborate with faculty. Constellate offers everything you need to learn, perform, and teach text analytics: a defined curriculum, robust tutorials, and live classes taught by experts, all tailored to your level of ability. If you enjoy the introduction, speak with your library about doing a robust evaluation of Constellate this fall. I look forward to working with you this summer! ~ Amy -- Amy J. Kirchhoff (she/her) Constellatehttps://constellate.org/ Text Analytics Business Manager / Portico, JSTOR Twitter: @AmyPlusFour Let us know if you do research or run a workshop!
Allow me to offer an unsolicited testimonial in support of Constellate and the JSTOR team that runs it: we've used it here at UVA in an NEH summer institute, and it is thoughtfully designed, especially from a pedagogical point of view. Also, Amy and her colleagues are great people with whom to work.
John Unsworth
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Hi Maurizio, John, all ~
Many folks who use secondary sources in text analysis are using them as primary sources and doing a survey of a field. For example:
* Andow, James. “How ‘Intuition’ Exploded.” Metaphilosophy 46, no. 2 (April 1, 2015): 189–212. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12127. This study considers ‘intuition talk’ across the study of philosophy over decades.
* Önder, Ali Sina, Sergey V. Popov, and Sascha Schweitzer. “Leadership in Scholarship: Editors’ Influence on the Profession’s Narrative.” SSRN, January 27, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3105539. This article studies “the change in the topic structure of papers published in the American Economic Review (AER) after the appointments of editors and coeditors of the AER between 1985 and 2011 using a textual analysis of accepted publications.”
* Schmelzer, Matthias. “The Growth Paradigm: History, Hegemony, and the Contested Making of Economic Growthmanship.” Ecological Economics 118 (October 1, 2015): 262–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.029. In this article, the text analysis is used to look at the frequency of the term “economic growth” across disciplines and the image created is used as a buttress in the greater arguments of the article.
* We see a lot of bibliometric analysis across secondary sources.
* And the sciences can have very specific needs, for example there is a suite of research in pharmacogenomics to identify genes that positively and negatively impact drugs.
Constellate’s primary focus is on teaching and learning and, in part due to this, we have included a number of primary source materials, as well as the secondary sources found in JSTOR and preserved in Portico. We have included the Library of Congress Chronicling Americahttps://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ newspapers (and recently helped a researcher build datasets of African American newspapers and non-African American newspapers for her research), the primary source collections of American Prison Newspapers and Independent Voices from Reveal Digitalhttps://about.jstor.org/revealdigital/, and the South Asian Open Archiveshttps://www.jstor.org/site/saoa/ (which has a substantial percentage of content in Bengali and Hindi.)
We aim to have a large variety of content included in Constellate, so that we and our participating institutions can teach lessons on working with different content.
Happy to talk more! (And let me know if you do some research on top of the content we are providing.)
~ Amy
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maurizio lana