Overview
Over two sessions in late May and early June, Leah Henrickson of Leeds University offered an introduction to R for text analysis.
During the first session she offered an overview of R and R Studio before showing participants how to prepare texts for analysis. This included removing numbers, capital letters and excessive white spaces.
The second part saw a quick recap of these functions before showing participants how to visualise the date, for example counting the frequency of words. The final practical exercises saw participants plot the data on bar charts and as word clouds.
You can use the Powerpoint slides, below, to learn how to perform these tasks, whilst the specific texts used in the workshops can be downloaded from:
Slides from the presentation can be downloaded as a powerpoint file or downloaded online:
Accompanying slides Accompanying slides
Videos of the presentation:
Preparing Your Corpus and Making Plots