Hi, My name is Richard Jean.

I am an associate professor of english

and cultural analytics at McGill

University, Montreal. Today, i am gonna

be introducing and talking about some work

I have been doing in the computational

study of culture and the arts.

Before i get going, I want to thanks

David Carrick and Simon for inviting

me to the institute and giving me the

chance to talk to all of you. i think

this institute is really a great thing.and

i have long felt that a bottleneck in

terms of this field of cultural analytics

expanding, growing and thriving. It's

comes down to training that a lot of

people want to learn how to use these

methods but there aren't a lot of

opportunities to re-train. Again , i want

to underscore that this institute is

really a great thing and before we get

started i just also want to mention

that the goal of my talk is not to either

make the polemical case for the use of

data in the humanities. i am just going to assume that