Text Analysis for Humanities Research (with a focus on Archaeology)

This repo contains interactive notebooks to learn how to do basic text analysis in the context of the Humanties / Archaeology. This course starts from the basics, and assumes you have no prior coding experience.

The materials are adapted from https://github.com/teddyroland/Text-Analysis-for-Humanities-Research

Get started

To start, follow these steps:

• Download Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/products/distribution)
• Install Anaconda
• Create folder to hold all your scripts
• Click the green ‘code’ button above, then select ‘download zip’
• Move .zip file to your scripts folder and unzip it
• Start Jupyter Notebook from Anaconda
• Within the Jupyter Explorer, navigate to the Scripts folder, select relevant Notebook in one of the 4 folders
  • Read explanations
  • Run cells by pressing ‘play’ button, or press SHIFT+ENTER
  • Edit code in cells where needed
  • Do exercises (marked with ## EXERCISE ##)

Trouble shooting

Can't get Anaconda to work? Try using Binder:

This will allow you to do the exercises in your browser without installing anything. Note: as this is all done remotely, you have to use the 'download' button to save your work!