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Database: ProQuest TDM (Text Data Mining)

ProQuest TDM provides access to a wide variety of ProQuest texts (publications, newspapers, zines, papers) in a platform that allows text analysis. This guide introduces the platform and included text holdings, as well as two approaches for analyzing text

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Exporting Data

 

  1. Your dataset will show up in the “data” folder in the Jupyter notebook environment

  2. Go to the folder "ProQuest TDM Studio Samples"

  3. Run Convert to Dataframe notebook

    1. Set corpus to the filepath of your dataset in the “data” folder

    2. Add data fields you want to include, such as pub_title, throughout notebook

  4. Copy the name you set to the output_file variable

  5. Go to "ProQuest TDM Studio Manuals" > Export Instructions notebook

    1. Set “data to export” as the output_file you generated in previous step

    2. The export notebook will generate an email containing your dataset to download