Excellence in the Humanities - Foundations and Applications of Humanities Analytics

Explore the foundations of humanities analytics in this 33-minute video lecture by Simon DeDeo, part of the Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics course. Gain insights into digital humanities, cultural analytics, and text analysis methods. Learn how to extract content and derive meaning from digital sources, empowering new scholarship in the humanities. Discover key concepts such as probability, measurement, operationalization, natural language processing, and topic modeling. This lecture, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, aims to demystify computational text analysis for a broad range of humanities scholars.