This is a short workshop (1-1.5 hour) that can be taught as a standalone workshop and on the R track for the Digital Research Institute.
This workshop was written by Connor French.
It was first taught at CUNY GC by Connor French in the Spring of 2021 as a 1.5 hour online synchronous workshop.
Abstract:
In this workshop, you will learn the principles of performing tidy text analysis in R. You will learn how to wrangle unstructured text into a tidy data structure, basic data visualizations, and basic sentiment analysis while exploring a fun data set of song lyrics. The main packages used will be tidytext and the tidyverse series of packages. This workshop assumes some familiarity with R, RStudio, and the dplyr R package. If you need to brush up on these skills before the workshop, the Intro to R and RStudio workshop will get you up to speed. This workshop will be held on Zoom.
- Students need to be familiar with the R and RStudio environments. In addition, they should have a basic understanding of dplyr verbs and pipes (%>%). The Intro to R and RStudio workshop is a necessary pre-req if they're not otherwise familiar with R and the Data Wrangling in R workshop is helpful.
Feedback was positive. A couple participants wanted a more advanced workshop, so that's something to consider for the future.
Given the short length of the workshop, I made this in a "walk-through" format. If future fellows want to turn it into a longer workshop, incorporating challenges and exercises would be good.
The easiest way to run this course is on RStudio Cloud. It makes distributing materials easy and you don't need to troubleshoot installations. The RStudio cloud website (rstudio.cloud) has straightforward instructions for its use.
The song lyrics are just some I got off a whim. I have a pdf in the repo called get_genius_lyrics.pdf that you could modify to get a different set of lyrics.
I went through the workshop up until the "Going Further" section, which arrived at about the 1 hour mark. After that, I allowed people who wanted to leave leave and continued the workshop until the end for those who wanted to stay. At both checkpoints I pasted the attendance link and workshop response forms in the chat.
Click here for the workshop website.