Getting Started with Scientific Programming for Humanities Analytics

Explore the fundamentals of scientific programming in this introductory video lecture from the Foundations & Applications of Humanities Analytics course. Delve into key concepts such as language, shell, Python, Jupiter Notebook, and IDE while learning how to run code and create Python notebooks. Gain practical skills in working with lexicons, functions, HTML, dictionaries, and plots. Designed for humanities scholars, this lecture empowers participants to leverage computational text analysis techniques for extracting content and deriving meaning from digital sources, ultimately enabling new avenues of humanities scholarship. Part of a comprehensive course covering digital humanities, cultural analytics, text analysis, probability, measurement, natural language processing, and topic modeling.

Introduction
Overview
Language
Shell
Python
Jupiter Notebook
How to Program
Running Code
IDE
Python Notebook
Project Overview
Lexicons
Functions
HTML
Dictionary
Plots