The following workshops will be held in the weeks following the DHARTI2022 Conference

Introduction to R for the Humanities
Webscraping using Chrome extension

Introduction to R for the Humanities

Faculty: Arjun, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi

Schedule: 28 Feb to 11 Mar 2022, 10 days. Mon – Fri. 3-4PM IST (UTC +530).

Objectives of the workshop: To introduce participants to the basic operations on R and enable them to use these skill to work on humanities data.
The workshop will cover the following: Variables, Loops, Pipes, Strings, data structures, data wrangling, text analysis and visualization.

Modules:
Vectors, Arrays, Lists, Data Structures, Data Frames, String Manipulation, Ggplot

Eligibility:

1. Applicants should have at least a Bachelor’s degree in a humanities discipline.

2. The workshop is open for those who don’t have any background in coding/ programming. If you are someone who has any experience in working with another programming language like Python, Java etc. this workshop is not for you.

Technology requirements:

Participants will have to install RStudio on their machines. Detailed instructions will be provided.

Seats limited. If the number of applicants exceed the capacity of the workshop some of the applicants would be waitlisted and/or accommodated at a repeat workshop.

All workshop participants will be awarded an eCertificate.

To apply please fill up this form.

Webscraping using Chrome Extension

Faculty: Arjun, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi

Date and time: 5 March 2022, 3-5 PM IST (UTC +530)

Objective: To enable participants to scrape data from websites.
The workshop will offer hands on live demonstration of the tool with exercises

Eligibility:

1. Applicants should have at least a Bachelor’s degree in a humanities discipline.

2. The workshop is open for those who don’t have any background in coding/ programming. If you are someone who has any experience in working with another programming language like Python, Java etc. this workshop is not for you.

Technology requirements: Google Chrome/ Chromium browser

Seats limited. If the number of applicants exceed the capacity of the workshop some of the applicants would be waitlisted and/or accommodated at a repeat workshop.

All workshop participants will be awarded an eCertificate.

To apply please fill up this form.

For any queries please contact the workshop faculty.