Workshop participants may find the following sample text sets useful for the workshop practicum. Alternatively, participants can download or bring with them their own texts and data. (For other text, image, corpora, and dataset collections, see A. Liu's DH Toychest -- Data Collections & DataSets)

 Plain-text collections downloadable as zip files:

• Historical Materials
• U.S. Presidents' Inaugural Speeches (all 57 inaugural speeches from Washington through Obama collected from the American Presidency Project with the assistance of project co-director John T. Woolley; assembled as individual plain-text files by Alan Liu) (zip file)
• Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln Speeches & Letters (84 works and excerpts from Project Gutenberg's version of Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865, ed. Merwin Roe, 1907; assembled by Alan Liu as separate files for each work) (zip file) (metadata)
• Michigan State University Libraries Text Collections
• Sunday School Books in Nineteenth Century America Dataset  (166 texts) (zip file)
• The Grange Visitor Dataset (429 issues of the official newspaper of the Michigan State Grange, 1875-1896) (zip file)
• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Dataset (76 texts) (zip file)
• Literature
• Fiction from the 1880s (sample corpora assembled from Project Gutenberg by students in Alan Liu's English 197 course, Fall 2014 at UC Santa Barbara) (zip files below)
• Adult British Fiction - 1880s (451 works assembled with assistance of Stanford Literary Lab) (metadata spreadsheet)
• Female Corpus (237 works) (metadata)
• Male Corpus (214 works) (metadata)
• Children's Fiction - 1880s (135 works of the 1880s additional to adult fiction of the decade assembled by students in UC Santa Barbara's English 197 course, Fall 2014) (metadata spreadsheet)
• American Corpus (33 works)
• European Corpus (102 works) (includes a few Continental European works in addition to the British and American works in this corpus)
• Female Corpus (28 works)
• Male Corpus (107 works)
• British Female Corpus (14 works)
• British Male Corpus (89 works)
• Shakespeare plays (24 plays from Project Gutenberg assembled by David Bamman, UC Berkeley School of Information) (zip file)
• William Wordsworth
• (with Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Lyrical Ballads, 1798 (assembled by Alan Liu from Project Gutenberg as separate files for each poem and the "Advertisement") (zip file) (metadata)
• The Prelude, 1850 version (William Knight's 1896 edition assembled by Alan Liu from Project Gutenberg as separate plain-text files for each book and cleaned of line numbers, notes, and note numbers) (zip file) (metadata)
• Miscellaneous
• Demo text collections assembled by David Bamman, UC Berkeley School of Information:
• Book summaries (2,000 book summaries from Wikipedia) (zip file)
• Film summaries (2,000 movie summaries from Wikipedia) (zip file)
• U.S. patents related to the humanities, 1976-2015 (patents mentioning "humanities" or "liberal arts" located through the U.S  Patent Office's searchable archive of fully-digital patent descriptions since 1976. Collected for the 4Humanities WhatEvery1Says project. Idea by Jeremy Douglass; files collected and scraped as plain text by Alan Liu)
• Metadata (Excel spreadsheet)
• Humanities Patents (76 patents related to humanities or liberal arts) (zip file)
• Humanities Patents - Extended Set (336 additional patents that mention the humanities or liberal arts in a peripheral way--e.g., only in reference citations and institutional names of patent holders, as minor or arbitrary examples, etc.) (zip file)
• Humanities Patents - Total Set (412 patents; combined set of above "Humanities Patents" and "Humanities Patents - Extended Set") (zip file)

 Sites containing large numbers of books, magazines, etc., in plain-text format (among others) that must be downloaded individually:

• Internet Archive Books (includes plain-text ["full text"] access to books, issues of magazines, etc.)
• Oxford Text Archive (large number of texts available in variety of forms, including plain text; texts are accessed one at a time)
• Project Gutenberg (convenient categories and "bookshelves" of works that can be downloaded individually as plain text; limited automated access; see also tips on downloading from Project Gutenberg)

Sample Gephi Datasets:

• Node and Edge CSV files for Par Martin Grandjean's Gephi tutorial
• Other online Gephi datasets (in various formats, including Gephi's native file format) :
• Datasets on Wiki.Gephi.Org

•  Stopwords (Lists of frequent, functional, and other words with little independent semantic value that text-analyis tools can be instructed to ignore--e.g., by loading a stopword list into Antconc [instructions, at 8:15 in tutorial video] or Mallet [instructions]. Researchers conducting certain kinds of text analysis (such as topic modeling) where common words, spelled-out numbers, names of months/days, or proper nouns such as "John" indiscriminately connect unrelated themes often apply stopword lists. Usually they start with a standard stopword list such as the Buckley-Salton or Fox lists and add words tailored to the specific texts they are studying. For instance, typos, boilerplate words or titles, and other features specific to a body of materials can be stopped out. For other purposes in text analysis such as stylistic study of authors, nations, or periods, common words may be included rather than being stopped out because their frequency and participation in patterns offer meaningful clues.)
• English:
• Buckley-Salton Stoplist (571 words) (1971; information about list)
• Fox Stoplist (421 words) (1989; information about list) 
• Mallet Stoplist (523 words) (default English stop list hard-coded into Mallet topic modeling tool; stoplists for German, French, Finnish, German, and Japanese also included in "stoplists" folder in local Mallet installations) (Note: Use the default English stoplist in Mallet by adding the option "--remove-stopwords " in the command string when inputting a folder of texts. To add stopwords of your own or another stopwords file, create a separate text file and additionally use the command "--extra-stopwords filename". See Mallet stopwords instructions)
• Jockers Expanded Stoplist (5,621 words, including many proper names) ("the list of stop words I used in topic modeling a corpus of 3,346 works of 19th-century British, American, and Irish fiction. The list includes the usual high frequency words (“the,” “of,” “an,” etc) but also several thousand personal names.")
• Goldstone-Underwood Stoplist (6,032 words) (2013; stopword list used by Andrew Goldstone and Ted Underwood in their topic modeling work with English-language literary studies journals) (text file download link)
• Other Languages:
• Kevin Bougé Stopword Lists Page ("stop words for Arabic, Armenian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish")
• Ranks NL Stopword Lists Page (stop words for Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu)
•  Reference Linguistic Corpora (Curated corpus-linguistics corpora of language samples from specific nations and time periods designed to be representative of prevalent linguistic usage. May be used online [or downloaded for use in Antconc] as reference corpora for the purpose of comparing linguistic usage in specific texts against broader usage)
• Corpus.byu.edu (Mark Davies and Brigham Young University's excellent collection of linguistic corpora)