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  <p>
  This is blatant self-promotion for a half-day Code4Lib
  post-conference workshop called <strong>Modern Alchemy:
  Hands-On with the Distant Reader</strong>.
  </p>
  
  <p>
  In this hands-on workshop participants will first learn how to
  use a Web-based system called the Distant Reader to transform
  sets of unstructured data (like bunches o' journal articles) into
  structured data, affectionally called "study carrels". These data
  sets are amenable to analysis by both people as well as
  computers. Second, participants will learn how to use both
  command-line tools as well as GUI applications (like AntConc,
  OpenRefine, or Gephi) to analyze the data sets. This analysis
  includes things such as feature extraction, concordancing, topic
  modeling, full text indexing, semantic indexing, network
  analysis, etc. In the end, participants will learn of an
  additional ways to turn data into information -- <em>modern
  alchemy</em>.
  </p>

  <p>
  See: https://2024.code4lib.org/workshop/Modern-Alchemy-HandsOn-with-the-Distant-Reader
  </p>

  <p>
  'Hope to see you there.
  </p>
  
  <p>
  Eric Lease Morgan &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;<br />
  Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship<br />
  University of Notre Dame
  </p>

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