Bridging Divides Training Session: Voyant Fundamentals
- Date
- March 19, 2024
- Time
- 12:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
- Location
- Online
- Open To
- All Bridging Divides researchers, affiliated researchers, HQPs, and partners
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9:00AM - 11:00AM (PDT)
10:00AM - 12:00PM (MDT)
12:00PM - 02:00PM (EDT)
This training session is hosted by Bridging Divides and open to all BD researchers, affiliated researchers, HQPs, and partners. The training is led by BD researcher Geoffrey Rockwell, University of Alberta.
Researchers working on BD projects are especially invited to join the training. The training is open to researchers from any academic background, no previous knowledge of Voyant is required.
More about Voyant Tools
This training session will focus on how to use Voyant to study collections of texts and its multiple possibilities to support researchers and professors in their work. Voyant is an open and free text analysis and visualization tool developed by scholars for research and teaching.
This training session will address how Voyant:
- Can handle collections of up to 100 MB,
- Works on texts in most known languages,
- Has over 25 different tools including text mining tools like Topic Modelling and Principal Component Analysis,
- Has an interface in 14 different languages from Arabic to Spanish,
- Can be use to publish texts with tools,
- Has associated hands-on teaching materials that can adapted for students.
To learn more about Voyant (external link) , connect to https://voyant-tools.org and upload a text or enter a URL for Voyant to get.
More about the presenter
Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, co-developer of Voyant Tools, is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute). He studied philosophy at Haverford College (BA) and the University of Toronto (MA, PhD). He has published on textual visualization and analysis, AI ethics and computing in the humanities including a book from the MIT Press, Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (2016). He teaches courses on Theoretical Issues in Humanities Computing, Big Data and Text Analysis in the Humanities, and Information Ethics.