When Week 9, 29 November 2017, 2.30-4.30pm
Where Clephan CL1.32b
Who Paul Brown (De Montfort University)
What "Doing Something Useful in Microsoft Excel for Textual Scholarship". A surprising amount of analysis of language can be done using nothing more than a spreadsheet. This session assumes no past experience in creating spreadsheets and offers a gentle introduction to the sorting and filtering of textual data and then--and this is the biggest step anyone ever takes with a spreadsheet--the writing of a formula to do some kind of calculation on the data. The examples will all be based on textual data, and the only maths we will rely on are the basic arithmetic operations that Lewis Carroll's Mock Turtle called "Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision".