Quantum GIS (QGIS), an open source geospatial desktop application, has been developing at a rapid pace, and has recently reached version 1.8. Its ease of use and accessibility (available for PC, Mac, and Linux platforms) has created a strong and active user community. In this workshop, we will explore the basic functionality of QGIS so that you may quickly learn how to load and format vector and raster data, use analysis tools, and query attributes.

Topic modeling is a text analysis technique that allows a researcher to quickly and effectively summarize a large corpus of documents. MALLET is the most-used topic modeling tool in digital humanities. This workshop will provide a brief overview of topic modeling, what it can do and where it has issues, and step through how to use the command-line implementation of MALLET to look at a set of documents. The workshop will be run by Elijah Meeks, who is one of the guest editors on the upcoming issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities special edition on topic modeling.

Regression analysis is a standard statistical method used in most analyses of social science data. This workshop will provide an overview of regression analysis, structured for individuals with knowledge of basic statistics but little to no background in regression. Regression procedures will be implemented in Stata. Participants should have some exposure to basic Stata procedures, such as importing data, but no experience in running and interpreting regressions in Stata.