ProQuest TDM Studio Guide: Help & Support Using TDM Studio

ProQuest offers a guide with documentation on getting started with TDM Studio.  More documentation is contained in the Jupyter Notebook in the TDM Studio Workbench.  

• ProQuest TDM Studio Guide
• TDM Studio: Using Visualization
  • Creating a Project
  • Visualization Dashboard
  • Geographic Analysis
  • Topic Modeling
• TDM Studio: Using the Workbench
  • Main interface
  • Creating your dataset
  • Using the Jupyter Notebook 

• Onboarding and Question & Answer session - New users can use the TDM Studio (office365.com) self-scheduling tool to schedule an onboarding session with ProQuest TDM Studio experts.   
• TDM Studio Technical Support
  • email tdmstudio@clarivate.com and you will usually receive a response to your technical question within 24 hours.
  • use the TDM Studio (office365.com) self-scheduling tool to schedule an appointment with an expert

Data Visualization:

• Schedule an appointment
• Resources & Tools

Text Mining:

• Email uwtextmine@uw.edu to schedule an appointment
• Resources & Tools (in addition to TDM Studio)

• Dataset / Corpus: Collection of data that can be parsed individually (understood) by a computer
• Scripts: Instructions that are executed by a program in a specific order to accomplish a task
• Methods: Procedures used to analyze data
• Jupyter Notebook: Open-source software that enables users to share documents with text, code, visualizations
• Python: Open-source programming language
• R: Open-source programming language and software for statistical analysis
• Workbench Dashboard: The Workbench is designed for experienced researchers who use their own coding methodologies. Workbenches are available to researchers in the designated project.
• Visualization Dashboard: TDM Studio Visualization is designed for users of all levels to quickly spot trends and generate insights. 
• Document: A single text file - novel, tweet, article
• Vocabulary: All the words used in a document or corpus
• Term/word frequency: Usage of terms in document / corpus in terms of the entire terms in a corpus
• n-grams: A sequence of items from a given sample of text or speech - usually unigrams, bigrams (two item phrases), trigrams (three item phrases)

ProQuest TDM Studio Visualizations can be used for many different levels of research, teaching, and learning.  Here are brief case studies showing how the dashboard has been used at other academic institutions:

TDM Research Projects:

• What are People Saying about COVID-19 Related Regulations, George Washington University - PhD research, Topic Modeling
• Trends in COVID-19 News Coverage, Princeton University - PhD research, Topic Modeling
• Misreported Research in Psychology: A Text and Data Mining Project, University of California, Berkeley - Undergraduate research
• Outcome-Reporting Bias in Education Research, Loyola University Chicago - Faculty research

Digital Humanities - Undergraduate Teaching

• Text and Data Mining for Teaching and Learning: How the University of Sydney integrated TDM and data literacy into its undergraduate courses, University of Sydney Library