Topic Modeling Violence in Guatemala

Topic Modeling Violence in Guatemala
Wednesday, September 26, 12–1:30pm, PCL Data Lab

With the proliferation of digital collections, there is a growing interest in using automatic data mining methods to analyze and visualize large corpora of texts for new insight. Jennifer Isasi (CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation) will teach the basics on how to explore and discover overarching themes in texts using Mallet, a topic modeling tool. Participants will explore a dataset derived from the Center of Regional Research in Mesoamerica’s collection of newspaper clippings covering violence in Guatemala (Archivo de Inforpress Centroamericana), digitally accessible through the Benson’s Latin American Digital Initiatives portal.

LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship