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Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #5: Digital Methods in Practice

Wednesday, 12 September, 1pm in Locke 611A Dr Geoff Ford (UC Arts Digital Lab) In previous sessions in the “Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series” we have talked about collecting textual data from the web, analysing texts using corpus methods and visualising data. In this session Geoff will draw some… Read More »Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #5: Digital Methods in Practice

Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #3 – Introduction to Web Scraping

Wednesday, 15 August, 1pm in Locke 611A Dr Christopher Thomson (English & Digital Humanities) Chris will introduce web scraping, an approach to collecting research data and automating research tasks. First we’ll briefly consider types of data that may interest us, and ask when web scraping may be the right approach… Read More »Digital Methods and Tools Seminar Series #3 – Introduction to Web Scraping