This series consists of 8 workshops focused on working with textual data. It is geared toward research in the humanities, but some sessions will also be relevant to the social sciences. Moving in a trajectory from close reading (markup, encoding, creating electronic editions) to "distant reading" (topic modeling, machine learning, aggregating and analyzing large corpora), the workshops aim to provide participants with a general knowledge of approaches to working with text.

In this introductory session, participants will gain an overview of both the workshop series and the kinds of research questions that can be explored by certain text analysis methods. Because it is intended only to provide a high-level overview of concepts that will be discussed in greater detail at future workshops, this session will not count toward RCR credit.