Love Data 2026: Doing Text Analysis with Python

Love Data: Doing Textual Analysis with Python was presented via Zoom on Wednesday, February 25th as part of Love Data Month 2026.Workshop Description: Discover how computational methods can uncover new patterns in text in this beginner-friendly, ninety-minute workshop oriented towards the Humanities and Social Sciences. We will guide you through the basics of Python and Jupyter notebooks using Google Colab, a free tool for running code in the cloud without installing complex software. This workshop covers foundational concepts in text analysis as well as practical skills to visualize and analyze textual corpora.Code: The Colab notebook used as part of this workshop is freely and publicly available. Please make a copy of the notebook if you wish to alter it for our own exploration and research. Due to bandwidth, captions have not been added to the recording yet. However, once captions have been added, the recording will be reuploaded. The transcript has been included.