Greetings! Please join us online for our series of events this Fall. All events are free and open to the public, and you’ll need to register for the Zoom link.

 

Register for events here:

https://northeastern.libcal.com/calendar/snell?cid=7006&t=g&d=0000-00-00&cal=7006&ct=33470&inc=0

 

Text Analysis for Beginners, Workshop 1 of 2: Wednesday, October 13^th, 12-1pm

Part one of a two-part session on text analysis. In this hands-on session, attendees will learn how to use Jupyter notebooks, an interactive web tool for running and writing about code. Then we’ll work with Python in Jupyter notebooks in preparation for next week’s session. No prior knowledge of either Jupyter or Python is assumed or required.

 

Text Analysis for Beginners, Workshop 2 of 2: Wednesday October 20^th, 12-1pm

Part two of a two-part session on text analysis. In this hands-on session, we’ll build our own custom datasets in Constellate, a text mining platform for building and analyzing textual datasets from sources such as JSTOR, Portico, Chronicling America, and Reveal Digital. We'll then use Python to run text analysis on our datasets in Jupyter notebooks. Those without prior experience in Jupyter notebooks or Python should plan to attend the October 13th session for the best outcome.

 

NULab Seedling Grants Panel: Wednesday, October 27^th, 12-1pm

A set of lightning talks presented by recipients of NULab Seedling and Travel Grants. This event will be hosted with the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks as part of the Digital Humanities Office Hours series and include talks by Avery Blankenship on the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, Jacob Murel on his dissertation research into machine learning and early modern medical discourse, and Jessica Linker and Angel Nieves on current work to develop 3D/VR reconstructions of Black Boston heritage sites.

 

Digital Scholarship Group & NULab Fall Welcome 2021, with Dr. Garrett Dash Nelson: Thursday November 4^th, 1-2:30pm

Join the Digital Scholarship Group (Northeastern University Library) and the NULab Center for Texts, Maps and Networks (College of Social Sciences and Humanities) for our annual kickoff event! The Fall Welcome will feature a keynote speech by Dr. Garrett Dash Nelson, the Curator of Maps and Director of Geographic Scholarship at the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. The keynote will be followed by lighting talks presenting research from the Northeastern community's digital projects. More details coming soon!

 

Virtual Visiting Scholar Nicola Paladin: Wednesday November 10^th, 12-1pm

Please join us) for a research presentation by Nicola Paladin, Virtual Visiting Scholar at the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Professor Paladin will share his work on the LTit – Letteratura tradotta in Italia project, which is dedicated to the circulation of foreign literature in Italy.

 

Register for all events here:

https://northeastern.libcal.com/calendar/snell?cid=7006&t=g&d=0000-00-00&cal=7006&ct=33470&inc=0