DIGITAL SCIENCE CENTER INTERNSHIP RACHAEL GOODYER DIGITAL SCIENCE CENTER INTERNSHIP RACHAEL GOODYER DIGITAL CENTERS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

TWO MAIN PROJECTS Fall project: Columbia’s first makerspace Spring project: Open source indexing tool

THE USER PROBLEM ‘I had to write my own book’s index and it took me a month!’ – Professor Bell, Columbia University

THE IDEAL SOLUTION OldNew  Free  Easy to use  Online  Automates key word search

THE NITTY GRITTY How to make an index Step one: Upload book Step two: Analyse book text (with NLP) Step three: Edit and format results Step four: Print and/or export Programming languages you need

STEP ONE: UPLOAD BOOK Workflow Upload button Text box option

STEP TWO: ANALYSE BOOK TEXT Text analysis  Remove punctuation  Remove common words  Remove duplicates  Find page locators  Show frequency  Alphabetise results

STEP THREE: EDIT AND FORMAT RESULTS Modifiable key words list Formatting options Key words statistics

STEP FOUR: EXPORT INDEX FromTo Export button

NEXT STEPS  Share code with world  Keep coding! Contact:

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