Python for Humanists

November 18-19, 2017
The Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

About us

CLIR Bollinger Fellow in Library Innovation, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Background in Psychology
10+ years programming experience
Found out that statistics "are a thing" in 2012
Facilitates the UPenn Use-R group, an R learning group in the Libraries.
Contact:
- Email address is jlevern@upenn.edu
- Website is https://AdUnumDatum.org

Installation instructions for python (version 3.6) and bash, from Software Carpentry.
PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) 8 the Style Guide for writing Python
- If you like PEP 8, you'll also probably like PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) 20, The Zen of Python, on the philosophy of the Python community.
If we get to using the OCLC API:
- OCLC's API Explorer: https://platform.worldcat.org/api-explorer/apis/wcapi/LibraryCatalogURL/GetByISBN
- The OCLC Library Catalog URLs API documentation
Additional useful resources, which Jacob reviewed when preparing for this workshop:
- LearnXinYMinutes: python3
- "Python for Converts", a 2014 presentation by Bri Hatch at the LinuxFest NorthWest conference
- Python's python3 tutorial
- Several resources from Software Carpentry's, which makes its materials available under a CC-By license:
  - The Software Carpentry python3 lesson Glossary page
  - The Software Carpentry "Gapminder" python3 lesson
  - The Software Carpentry "Unix Shell" ("bash") lesson
  - Yhat's blog post on ggplot for python