Open Collections - iPython Notebooks
iPython notebooks showing how to use UBC's Open Collections API to do some basic text analysis.
This project comes out of work I did around UBC’s Open Collections, where I was interested in how digitised archives and public datasets could be explored with lightweight text analysis.
The notebooks are fairly practical rather than academic. The goal was to show how you could take a collection of texts, fetch the underlying data, and start asking basic questions of it without building a large research platform around the process.
It is also one of the projects that connects most clearly to later work like Chinwag. The domains are very different, but the underlying interest is similar: take a body of text, structure it properly, and make it easier to explore patterns that would otherwise stay buried in the raw material.
I still like projects in this space because they sit at a nice intersection of engineering, analysis, and curiosity.