Curious about how to trace trends in emotions across one text or 100,000? This hands-on workshop for students, faculty, and staff will show you how + why to do just that using two free and easy tools: Lexos, a web-based tool for computational text analysis, and Tableau Public, a tool for data visualization.

Through this workshop, you’ll learn what sentiment analysis is and its various types and uses, the pros and cons of sentiment analysis, how to find data, and how to do a basic dictionary-based sentiment analysis + visualization.

This workshop is pitched at beginners--you do not need to know coding / programming or the command line; all the tools are all drag-and-drop / point-and-click--but it also can be valuable for those with any level of expertise.

This workshop is also apt for anyone interested in digital humanities, digital scholarship, and / or computational text analysis.

Required:

Computer with Internet Access

Browser: Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox (other browsers may not work)

Text Editor: Visual Studio Code (other text editors are fine, but the workshop will be explained using VSC)

Tableau Public Account

Location: TBD (attendees will be notified when the location (in person / remote) is determined)

Getting Started with… Sentiment Analysis