The TORCHLITE project is hosting a hackathon May 21-23, 2024 in Champaign, Illinois for researchers and programmers interested in text analysis and data mining/visualization using HathiTrust Research Center tools. The hackathon deliverables include data visualizations, Jupyter notebooks, applications, and creative uses for its new tools. Participants who are selected to attend will receive up to $1,000 in reimbursements for travel and accommodations.
More about the TORCHLITE project from the website:
The HathiTrust Research Centerâs âTools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extractionâ (TORCHLITE) . . . project leverages HTRCâs new Extracted Features API. The Extracted Features API allows programmatic access to metadata and annotated token data (aggregated at the page level) for more than 17 million volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library collection, including inâcopyright material. This robust dataset includes all kinds of useful metadata and data about individual books, which can be leveraged to create interesting visualizations and applications. HTRC is currently developing visualizations that map author location data, publication dates, and word frequency.
Register to participate in the link on the website by March 1, 2024.