Week 2, Day 5: Friday, July 21
Synopsis
Week 2, Day 5 concentrates on querying text, on creating visualizations, and on presenting research outcomes to the end user. After desigining and implementing the content of your edition, after adding layers of information to your model, we think about how to query the information and how to present it to an audience. It means that the content need to be made accessible in a way that does not require an end user to code.
Outcome goals
- Introduction to XQuery
- Familiarity with FLWOR statements
- Visualization as part of the text processing pipeline: making decisions, selecting formats, interacting with, and producing visualizations
- Hands-on: a departure from Word Cloud
Legend
- Presentation: by instructors
- Discussion: instructors and participants
- Talk lab: participants discuss or plan in small groups
- Code lab: participants code alone or in small groups
9:00–10:30: Text analytics 2
Text analytics 2
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30 min | Unsupervised learning | Presentation |
| 30 min | Cluster analysis | Code lab |
| 15 min | PCA | Discussion |
| 15 min | Paleographic analysis | Presentation |
10:30–11:00: Coffee break
11:00–12:30: Text analytics 2 (cont.)
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 90 min | Unsupervised learning, cluster analysis, PCA, paleographic analysis (continued) | Discussion |
12:30–2:00: Lunch
2:00–3:30: eXist-db and XQuery
XQuery is a query language for XML databases. In this session, we will install eXist-db and begin writing queries using XPath and XQuery.
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20 min | Installing eXist-db | Code lab |
| 70 min | Introduction to XQuery | Code lab |
3:30–4:00: Coffee break
4:00–5:30: Visualization as outcome
In the last section, we’ll discuss visualization as a view on your text. We will also make you familiar with different visualization formats.
| Time | Topic | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 90 min | Getting from layered annotations to (a specific) visualization | Discussion |
We’ll end each day with a request for feedback, based on a general version of the day’s outcome goals, and we’ll try to adapt on the fly to your responses. Please complete Week 2, Day 5 feedback (just copy and paste it into a plain-text document) and email your response to Kaylen at kaylensanders@pitt.edu with the subject heading “Week 2, Day 5 feedback”.