Workshops
LADAL and its collaborators offer workshops of matter relating to text analytics, statistics, data visualization, and related topics. This page contains links, information, and details about upcoming and past workshops offered by LADAL or its collaborators and partners. Also, LADAL members present their research or information relevant to LADAL at conferences. Below are links to upcoming events (conferences/workshops/presentations) and presentations containing information about LADAL or research based on LADAL.
Upcoming Workshops
Below you will find the details of the workshops offered by LADAL or Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) or its collaborators and partners.
Previous workshops
17 June 2022 - AcqVA Aurora workshop: From Tables to Forests
This workshop consists of two parts. The first part of the workshop focuses on loading and working with tabular data R. In this part of the workshop, we will learn how to load, inspect, process, and summarize tabulated data. The second part of the workshop focuses tree-based models in R, such as conditional inference trees, random forests, and Boruta, which have become more prominent in the language science over the past decade. This part will discuss the underlying logic of tree-based models, how they can be implemented in R, as well as their strengths and weaknesses.
The materials for this workshop can be accessed via this GitHub repo and the rendered script is available here.
Network analysis and Topic Modeling on Twitter data using R
This online workshop is offered free to Australian researchers and research students and will cover:
- Introduction to network theory.
- Fundamental principles of using R for network analysis.
- Topic modeling of tweet text using R.
The data used for the workshop will be an open source dataset of Twitter data relating to the 2019 Federal Election.
Date: May 18 2022 Time: 9:00AM - 12:00PM AEST Venue: Online
Registration is required and the workshop is brought to you by the teams at the Australian Digital Observatory (ADO) and the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) via the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
Monotreme Mania!
Comparative text analytics on Twitter data
This online workshop is offered free to Australian researchers and research students and will cover:
- Collecting and transforming Twitter data using twarc.
- Analysing the collected Twitter data using the R ecosystem for text analytics.
Register via Eventbrite
Update - 09/03/2022 The workshop is now fully booked. If you missed out, do check back next week in case of cancellations, and let us know if you’re keen for us to run the workshop again later.
Brought to you by the teams at the Australian Digital Observatory (ADO) and the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) via the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).
Power Analysis with R
Title: Power Analysis with R (pwr and simr)
Date: 1 February 2022
Event: AcqVA Aurora Lab Workshop
Length: 4 hours
Facilitators: Martin Schweinberger
Resources: GitHub Repo
Data Visualization with R (ggplot2 and likert)
Title: Data Visualization with R (ggplot2 and likert)
Date: 25 January 2022
Event: AcqVA Aurora Lab Workshop
Length: 4 hours
Facilitators: Martin Schweinberger
Resources: GitHub Repo
An introduction to Jupyter notebooks for text analysis
Title: An introduction to Jupyter notebooks for text analysis - Virtual workshop for absolute beginners
Date: 24 November 2021
Event: Digital Humanities Australasia 2021 Conference
Length: 3 hours
Facilitators: Sara King, Simon Musgrave
Best Practices in Corpus Linguistics
Title: Best Practices in Corpus Linguistics – What lessons should we take from the Replication Crisis and how can we guarantee high quality in our research?
Date: 20–24 May 2020
Event: ICAME 41 (41th Meeting of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). Heidelberg, Germany.
Speaker: Martin Schweinberger
The Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL)
Title: Implementing school-based support infrastructure for digital humanities research at UQ - The Language Technology and Data Analysis Laboratory (LADAL)
Date: 30 October 2019
Speakers: Michael Haugh & Martin Schweinberger
Presentation at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC): The Australian eResearch Skilled Workforce Summit. Sydney, Australia, 29-30/7/2019.
Materials: slides
Using R for Corpus Linguistics
Title: Using R for Corpus Linguistics – an Introduction and Discussion Note on Sustainability and Replicability in Corpus Linguistics
Date: 2 April 2019
Speaker: Martin Schweinberger
Presentation at the Center of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL) Corpus Workshop. Melbourne, Australia, 2–3/4/2019.
Materials: slides