1. DIGITAL SCIENCE CENTER INTERNSHIP 2012-13 RACHAEL GOODYER DIGITAL SCIENCE CENTER INTERNSHIP 2012-13 RACHAEL GOODYER DIGITAL CENTERS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

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

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

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

5. 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

6. STEP ONE: UPLOAD BOOK Workflow Upload button Text box option

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

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

9. STEP FOUR: EXPORT INDEX FromTo Export button

10. NEXT STEPS  Share code with world https://github.com/digintern/index.mehttps://github.com/digintern/index.me.  Keep coding! Contact: Jeffrey.lancaster@columbia.edu rrg2141@columbia.edu

11. DEMO: BEFORE

12. DEMO: AFTER