Previous Workshops

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Australian Text Analytics Platform tools: Discursis, Juxtorpus, Quotation tool and Semantic tagger

This workshop was part of the USyd Digital Humanities Day 2023.

The workshop demonstrated and taught several recently or soon-to-be-released tools from the ATAP text analytic tool collection. These tools include Discursis for analysing human conversational texts, Juxtorpus for advanced corpus slicing and comparison, Semantic Tagger for semantically tagging every word in your text collections, and Quotation Tool for NLP algorithm-based quotation extraction, analysis, and visualisation.

Date: Tuesday 14 March 2023

Length: 3 hours

Facilitators: Staff of the Sydney Informatics Hub

HASS Research Data Commons and IRC Computational Skills Summer School

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) through the HASS Research Data Commons and Indigenous Research Capability (HASS RDC and IRC Program) offered a Computational Skills Summer School in Sydney, February 7 and 8, 2023.

The Summer School featured skills development workshops to help researchers use the research infrastructure that is being created in the HASS RDC and IRC Program.

The projects from the HASS RDC and IRC Program presented workshops on using the tools and platforms.

Program

Pre-conference workshop (before the 2022 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society)

The Australian Text Analytics Platform and the Language Data Commons of Australia presented a day of workshop activities to give ALS conference delegates (and anyone else who is interested) the opportunity to learn more about the work of the two projects. The day included:

  • an overview of the projects and the work to date
  • reports on specific sub-projects
  • introductory workshops on the tools and resources being developed
  • a workshop on using Discursis, a tool for tracking topics in interactive use of language
  • the opportunity to influence future work by exploring and providing feedback on the data interface which we are building.

Further details (including full program)

Geolocating Australian Historical Resources

This workshop was part of the Australian Society of Archivists 2022 Conference

Date: October 20 2022

Length: 3 hours

Facilitators: Michael Niemann, Fiannuala Morgan (ANU), Simon Musgrave

Learn how to collect and analyse comments on YouTube videos using the open-source tools Youte and Discursis

Date: September 21 2022

Length: 3 hours

Facilitators: Boyd Nguyen (ADO), Sam Hames (ATAP)

Finding quotes and speakers in text using the ATAP quotation tools

Date: September 8 2022

Length: 1 hour

Facilitators: Sony Jufri

Advance care planning for your research data

Date: September 7 2022

Event: FAVeR Showcasing Approaches to Digital Humanities for Researchers

Length: 1 hour

Facilitators: Sam Hames, Ben Foley

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Date: June 21 2022

Event: SICSS-Sydney

Length: 1 hour

Facilitators: Sam Hames, Ben Foley

Computational Thinking in the Humanities

The workshop Computational Thinking in the Humanities was a 3-hour online workshop featuring two plenary talks, lightning presentations, as well as a panel discussion. The workshop was co-organized by the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP), FIN-CLARIAH and its UEF representatives, and the Australian Digital Observatory.

Date: September 1 2022

Length: 3 hours

Further details

Network analysis and Topic Modeling on Twitter data using R

Date: May 18 2022

Event: Joint event ADO and ATAP

Length: 3 hours

Facilitators: Alice Miller, Simon Musgrave

Monotreme Mania! Comparative text analytics on Twitter data

Date: 16 March 2022

Event: Joint event ADO and ATAP

Length: 3 hours

Facilitators: Sam Hames, Simon Musgrave

An introduction to Jupyter notebooks for text analysis: Virtual workshop for absolute beginners

Date: August 24 2022

Event: FAVeR Showcasing Approaches to Digital Humanities for Researchers

Length: 2 hours

Facilitators: Sara King, Simon Musgrave

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Date: 27 July 2022

Event: Workshop for Sydney Corpus Lab

Length: 3 hours

Facilitators: Sara King, Simon Musgrave

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Date: 24 November 2021

Event: Digital Humanities Australasia 2021 Conference

Length: 3 hours

Facilitators: Sara King, Simon Musgrave