The Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is a suite of libraries and programs used for mining and analysing very large amounts of textual data using computational methods. This two-part workshop will introduce beginners interested in analysing text to NLTK, and common text analysis tasks including: 

• Importing text, normalizing 
• Word count and location techniques.  
• Visualizations 

whether you’re a literature scholar or a bio informatics major researching your literature review, NLTK can help you. 

Please bring a laptop with for your own use during the workshop. The laptop will need to have following software installed: 

• Anaconda - Python 3.7 version 
• PyCharm - Community Edition 

Please note: All software installation must be done before the workshop, please ensure that you followed any account creation or software installation instructions.  Out of courtesy to the class we will not be able to troubleshoot software set up during class time.  If you have any issues, please contact the IT Help Desk.