Summary and Setup

This lesson teaches the student how to use a Python-based, command-line tool called the Distant Reader Toolbox. The purpose of the Toolbox is to enable students, researchers, or scholars the abilty to apply data science computing techniques against arbitrarily large volumes of text.

Each episodes ought to take no more than thirty minutes to complete, and since there are E episodes, working through the entire lesson ought to take E * .5 hours to complete. :-D

This lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.

Data Sets

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We will be using a dataset comprised of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey as translated by Samuel Butler.

Software Setup

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Software setup ought to be, at most, a two-step process (“famous last words”):

1. Make sure a sane verion of Python is installed on your computer, and if you don’t know how to address such a thing, then it is strongly suggested you install Anaconda.

2. From the command line, install a set of Python-based command-line tools called the Distant Reader Toolbox: pip install reader-toolbox.