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