Date:
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Want to try your hand at text analysis and machine learning? Looking to develop skills in machine learning and LLMs? The UVM Libraries is running a semester-long trial of Constellate, the text-analysis platform from ITHAKA, that has now been extended through June 2025!
As members of a trialling institution, UVM faculty, staff, and students can build and analyze datasets from over 35 million journal articles, books, and newspapers from JSTOR, Portico, and Chronicling America.
With Constellate, you have access to the Constellate Lab, a JupyterLab and RStudio instance where you can develop and run Jupyter notebooks and R scripts. The Constellate team has shared dozens of open source notebooks and other teaching materials that you can use or adapt for your own text analysis projects or to teach others.
And you can sign up for free classes and workshops from the basics of Python coding to an introduction to Large Language Models, the technology behind ChatGPT. Over the next 10 weeks, Skill-Build 2024 will take a community of learners from non-coders to a capstone text analysis project of your own.
UVM's trial runs through December 31. Give it a try and send us your feedback. Is this something you'll be likely to use?