Constellate by JSTOR and Portico (formerly Digital Scholar Workbench) is a pilot text and data mining platform that enables digital humanities scholars to do text and data analysis and build coding skills. The platform provides beginner and intermediate text/data mining lessons and templates using Python, a coding environment (Jupyter Notebooks), and access to a growing number of publications (all of JSTOR, participating Portico publishers, Chronicling America, Cord-19, and more to come).  Participants in this workshop will learn how the platform can be used to build, download, and analyze datasets.

Workshop prerequisites: This workshop assumes familiarity with Python. If you’re a beginner, check out the Digital Scholar Workbench’s Beginner Lessons prior to the session.

This workshop is part of our Digital Humanities Toolkit Series.

Please check in with the presenter for your workshop or contact Gesina Phillips (gap64@pitt.edu) if you have any pre-event questions. If you are not a Pitt affiliate, most software should still be available to you, with the exception of ArcGIS and Photoshop--please get in touch if you have any other questions about your ability to participate.