Readings Due: 

• Review readings from previous week. 
• Read  all of the linked materials from the HathiTrust Research Center “Text as Data” page. This will give you a general introduction to a massive collection of textual data. Then, read through the examples and use cases links. You should be able to present at least one example of a research project performed with HathiTrust data. 
  • https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/HathiTrust+Research+Center
  • Be sure to watch the introductory video. 
  • https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/display/COM/Examples+and+Use+Cases 

Notebook Activity: 

• Work with your group to finish your in-class activity from Week 6: Collection, Selection and Evaluation of Data
  • We will begin the week with 15 minutes time to work as a group. Then we will jump into talking about the datasets. 
• Complete the weekly notebook. In order to do the assignment, you will need to download the herland.txt file in this week’s folder in the Group Library.  https://github.com/lmrhody/femethodsS23/blob/main/week7_notebook.ipynb

Additional Resources: 

Suggested: For those students in the M.S. in Data Analysis and Visualization program, you may want to familiarize yourself with the Hadley Wickham article “Tidy Data,” which is what the R package of the same name is based upon. This article can be found in the group library. 

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