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From Ithaka, Constellate is a platform to teach, learn, and perform text analysis with scholarly and primary source content.

 


Constellate allows users to:

  • Integrate no-code text and data techniques into research
  • Uncover patterns and trends in 38+ million books and journals
    • Constellate works with various data providers including JSTOR, Portico, Chronicling America, Doc South, South Asian Open Archives, and Reveal Digital. Selected, rights-cleared content is available, and more collections are being added. Check the Constellate website for more information.
  • Join live classes with text and data analysis experts
  • Teach and learn code concepts in their browser

Through December 31, 2024, Occidental is a trialing institution with access for Oxy faculty, staff and students to all of Constellate’s features, including 50,000 item datasets, all of Constellate's data visualizations, the Constellate Lab (Jupyter), and invitations to their online classes

Using Constellate

Campus-wide access to Constellate is now active.

Constellate provides open lessons on topics such as using Jupyter computations notebooks, python basics, and various text analysis methods including Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, TF/IDF, Topic Modeling, and Word Frequencies. Constellate's new notebook environment is a customized version of the Jupyter Notebook software designed to meet the needs of Constellate users. Each user is provided with a workspace preloaded with Constellate's tutorial notebooks and Python libraries needed to get started with text analysis on the Constellate platform.  Users can work through template notebooks using custom or pre-built datasets.

Here are some support documents to help you get started with Constellate: