Matthew Jockers, Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jockers based the workshop on the first few chapters of his new book Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature. (You can view an electronic version of this book in Yale’s online catalog [1].) The concepts and techniques covered included word frequency, token distribution, and correlation.

The workshop was held in Bass Library, L01.

Workshop schedule:

SESSION ONE (3:30pm–4:45pm) covered: the R computing environment, R console vs. RStudio, basic text manipulation in R, word frequency

SESSION TWO (5:00pm–6:30pm) entailed: dispersion plots, Correlation, bonus material (time permitting)