For the fifth year in a row, I will be facilitating three-hour hands-on Distant Reader workshop at the annual Code4Lib conference:
Title - Modern Alchemy: Hands-On with the Distant Reader
Abstract - In this hands-on workshop participants will first
learn how to use a Web-based system called the Distant Reader to
transform sets of unstructured data (like bunches o' journal
articles) into structured data, affectionally called "study
carrels". These data sets are amenable to analysis by both
people as well as computers. Second, participants will learn how
to use both command-line tools as well as GUI applications (like
AntConc, OpenRefine, or Gephi) to analyze the data sets. This
analysis includes things such as feature extraction,
concordancing, topic modeling, full text indexing, semantic
indexing, network analysis, etc. In the end, participants will
learn additional ways to turn data into information -- modern
alchemy.
If you are interested, then I'd be more than happy to answer any questions.
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Eric Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu>
Librarian Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
Received on Sat Jan 10 2026 - 12:40:37 EST