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Tutorials for Data Exploration

Tutorials for Data Exploration

Loc.gov JSON API notebooks

LOC.gov JSON API Guide
Downloading an item with multiple pages to PDF
Accessing images from the loc.gov JSON API for image analysis
Color clusters in images in Library of Congress collections
Connecting the image file to the metadata
Extracting location data from the loc.gov API for geovisualization
Analyzing and visualizing cartographic metadata from loc.gov

Chronicling America notebooks

Using the loc.gov API with the Chronicling America Historic Newspapers Collection
Learning and Applying Basic API Tasks in Chronicling America
Using Chronicling America to analyze specific newspaper titles for content.
Using Chronicling America to analyze word frequency in newspaper Front Pages
Using Chronicling America to analyze word frequency and geographic usage
Downloading Search Results from Chronicling America
Downloading Newspaper Titles and Batches from Chronicling America

Web Archives notebooks

Exploring the Memegenerator Metadata
Exploring the GIPHY.com Metadata
LOC Goes Lofi

Data Package notebooks

LoC Data Package Tutorial: Sanborn Maps collection
LoC Data Package Tutorial: United States Elections, Web Archives Data Package
LoC Data Package Tutorial: Free to Use collection
LoC Data Package Tutorial: National Jukebox collection
LoC Data Package Tutorial: 1000 Dot Gov PDF Dataset
LoC Data Package Tutorial: Selected Digitized Books Data Package
LoC Data Package Tutorial: City and Telephone Directories
LoC Data Package Tutorial: Digitized Telephone Directories Data Package
LoC Data Package Tutorial: Stereograph Card Collection
LoC Data Package Tutorial: Austro-Hungarian maps set
LoC Data Package Tutorial: General Collections Assessment

Events

Bite-size ideas for the “Doing DH @ LC” Create-a-thon

Other Library API notebooks

IIIF API Guide
What are Sitemaps?
OpenSearch Guide

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