• Introduction
• Office hours
• Preparation for Data Center workshops
• Workshop materials
  • Workshops 1 (Digital Humanities) and 2 (Sketch Engine)
  • Workshop 3: Introduction to R
  • Homework assignment after workshop 3
  • Workshop 4: Sentiment analysis in R
  • Homework assignment after workshop 4

Introduction

This page collects materials for the data-driven assignment in the Spring 2025 edition of Introduction to Rhetoric and Argumentation at UCR. You can also access the related files (data and R scripts) directly on GitHub.

Office hours

The Data Center offers office hours to help you with the data-driven assignments. You can find more information about the schedule here.

Preparation for Data Center workshops

To participate in the workshops, you will need to have R and RStudio installed on your computer. If you don’t have these programs installed, please follow this installation tutorial.

In addition, the R basics tutorial on the Data Center website explains the RStudio interface, and shows how to create a new project and how to install packages.

Please bring your fully charged laptop to all Data Center workshops.

Workshop materials

Workshops 1 (Digital Humanities) and 2 (Sketch Engine)

Please see the course Moodle page.

Workshop 3: Introduction to R

Please find the workshop handout here.

Homework assignment after workshop 3

TBA

Workshop 4: Sentiment analysis in R

Please find the workshop handout here.

Homework assignment after workshop 4

Please open this link, and click on the “Download raw file” button (top right corner, with the downward pointing arrow). Save the file in your R project directory. Open the file in RStudio, and follow the instructions in the document to complete the assignment.