Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python — Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2022/11/21/humanities-data-analysis-case-studies-with-python-humanities-data-analysis-case-studies-with-python/ OpenMethods introduction to: Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python — Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python 2022-11-21 06:58:00 Introduction: Folgert Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont and Allen Riddell ‘s  interactive book, Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python had been written with the aim in mind to equip humanities students and scholars working with textual and tabular resources with practical, hands-on knowledge to better understand the potentials of data-rich, computer-assisted approaches that the Python framework offers to them and eventually to apply and integrate them to their own research projects. The first part introduces a “Data carpentry”, a collection of essential techniques for gathering, cleaning, representing, and transforming textual and tabular data. This sets the stage for the second part that consists of 5 case studies (Statistics Essentials: WhoReads Novels? ; Introduction to Probability ; Narrating with Maps ; Stylometry and the Voice of Hildegard ; A Topic Model of United States Supreme Court Opinions, 1900–2000 ) showcasing how to draw meaningful insights from data using quantitative methods. Each chapter contains executable Python codes and ends with exercises ranging from easier drills to more creative and complex possibilities to adapt the apply and adopt the newly acquired knowledge to their own research problems. The book exhibits best practices in how to make digital scholarship available in an open, sustainable ad digital-native manner, coming in different layers that are firmly interlinked with each other. Published with Princeton University Press in 2021, hardcopies are also available, but more importantly, the digital version is an  Open Access Jupyter notebook that can be read in multiple environments and formats (.md and .pdf). The documentation, coda and data materials are available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/3560761#.Y3tCcn3MJD9). The authors also made sure to select and use packages which are mature and actively maintained. Erzsebet Tóth-Czifra https://www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org/index.html Blog post Analysis Bibliographic Listings Cluster Analysis Code Collocation Analysis Concordancing Content Analysis Contextualizing Data Digital Humanities Dissemination English File Interpretation Language Link Literature Manuscript Meta-Activities Methods Modeling Network Analysis Publishing Relational Analysis Research Research Activities Research Objects Research Process Research Results Research Techniques Software Standards Stilistic Analysis Structural Analysis Teaching / Learning Text Bearing Objects Topic Modeling Visualization Data analysis Python

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Folgert Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont and Allen Riddell ‘s  interactive book, Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python had been written with the aim in mind to equip humanities students and scholars working with textual and tabular resources with practical, hands-on knowledge to better understand the potentials of data-rich, computer-assisted approaches that the Python framework offers to them and eventually to apply and integrate them to their own research projects.

The first part introduces a “Data carpentry”, a collection of essential techniques for gathering, cleaning, representing, and transforming textual and tabular data. This sets the stage for the second part that consists of 5 case studies (Statistics Essentials: WhoReads Novels? ; Introduction to Probability ; Narrating with Maps ; Stylometry and the Voice of Hildegard ; A Topic Model of United States Supreme Court Opinions, 1900–2000 ) showcasing how to draw meaningful insights from data using quantitative methods. Each chapter contains executable Python codes and ends with exercises ranging from easier drills to more creative and complex possibilities to adapt the apply and adopt the newly acquired knowledge to their own research problems.

The book exhibits best practices in how to make digital scholarship available in an open, sustainable ad digital-native manner, coming in different layers that are firmly interlinked with each other. Published with Princeton University Press in 2021, hardcopies are also available, but more importantly, the digital version is an  Open Access Jupyter notebook that can be read in multiple environments and formats (.md and .pdf). The documentation, coda and data materials are available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/3560761#.Y3tCcn3MJD9). The authors also made sure to select and use packages which are mature and actively maintained.

Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python is a practical guide to data-intensive humanities research using the Python programming language. The book, written by Folgert Karsdorp, Mike Kestemont and Allen Riddell, was originally published with Princeton University Press in 2021 (for a printed version of the book, see the publisher’s website), and is now available as an Open Access interactive Juptyer Book.

The book begins with an overview of the place of data science in the humanities, and proceeds to cover data carpentry: the essential techniques for gathering, cleaning, representing, and transforming textual and tabular data. Then, drawing from real-world, publicly available data sets that cover a variety of scholarly domains, the book delves into detailed case studies. Focusing on textual data analysis, the authors explore such diverse topics as network analysis, genre theory, onomastics, literacy, author attribution, mapping, stylometry, topic modeling, and time series analysis. Exercises and resources for further reading are provided at the end of each chapter.

Source: Karsdorp, F., Kestemont, M., & Riddell, A. (2021). Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies with Python. Princeton University Press. https://www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org/index.html

Original date of publication: 2021.

Internet Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220519110720/https://www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org/index.html