Word Vectors for the Thoughtful Humanist

Schedule

― Monday, 12 July ―

Session 1	12:30–1:50 (Eastern)	Welcome, introduction and scoping (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)
	1:50–2:00	break
Session 2	2:00–3:15	Conceptual orientation and walkthrough of the basics of R (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)
Session 3	3:15–4:20	A deeper look at core concepts and terms, part 1 (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)
Session 4	4:20–4:30	Wrap-up

Homework: Hands-on experimentation with the Women Writers Vector Toolkit and/or our Sandbox

― Tuesday, 13 July ―

Session 5	12:30–1:45	A deeper look at core concepts and terms, part 2 (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)
	1:45–2:00	break
Session 6	2:00–4:30	Walkthrough commented code on querying an existing model, and group hands-on practice (walkthrough slide: HTML, TEI, notes; hands-on slides: HTML)
Session 7	4:30–5:00	Troubleshooting (if needed)

Homework: Choose a term that you’re interested in, query that term in at least two different models, and make notes on your results in the Day 2 Homework document in the Group Activities folder in our shared Google Drive

― Wednesday, 14 July ―

Pre-session	11:00–12:00	Downloading R and RStudio (optional but recommended!)
Session 8	12:30–1:45	Process, part 1: Corpus and data preparation (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)
Session 9	1:45–2:15	Treasure hunt in the WWVT Sandbox! (slide: HTML)
	2:15–2:30	break
Session 10	2:30–3:30	Group walkthrough of model training in RStudio (slide: HTML, TEI, notes)
Session 11	3:30–4:30	Hands-on practice: getting ready to train a model, loading your own data (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)

Homework: train a model on your own data, varying one paramater from the defaults

― Thursday, 15 July ―

Pre-session	11:00–12:00	Downloading R and RStudio (optional but recommended!)
Session 12	12:30–1:00	Questions and review of our trained models
Session 13	1:00–2:30	Process, part 2: Parameters and validation (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)
	2:30–2:45	break
Session 14	2:45–3:45	Treasure hunt, part 2 (slide: HTML)
Session 15	3:45–4:30	Group hands-on practice: setting up to train and validate another model (walkthrough slides: HTML, TEI, notes; hands-on slide HTML)

Homework: Train another model with different parameters, develop some word pairs, and run validation code

― Friday, 16 July ―

Session 16	12:30–1:45	Hands-on practice and discussion in small groups (slides: HTML)
	1:45–2:00	break
Session 17	2:00–3:15	Walkthrough demo: Exploration and analysis (slides: HTML, TEI, notes)
Session 18	3:15–4:30	Full-group discussion and wrap-up (slides: HTML, TEI)

This workshop was originally scheduled for 2020, but was postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic.