Automating Archives: Intro Python for Humanists

explore text analysis tools and learn how to use them to explore your research and data

Join part one of two for learning some basic text analysis tools using Python

Working across multiple texts or images in unwieldly folders and lists of files? Come learn about using Python and data frames to organize your files and data, keep your metadata on hand, and do some preliminary analysis.

Have images or pdfs that you can't quickly copy and paste text from? Search for words or phrases? Come learn about using OCR to turn images into plain text to make it easier to work with.

Learn the basics of Python syntax and start experimenting with using programming to rename and organize your files. Have images form the archives whose file names look like: 000001232.png or similar? Want to quickly rename your images so they are more useful and look like: objectTitle_author_archiveName_date.png? Come and learn how!