Using Constellate for Text and Data Mining (Trial Access Fall 2024): Home

Syracuse University affiliated users can access the Constellate to participate in the trial and explore the platform (link will prompt NetID authentication from off-campus)

Learn More

• Access the Constellate Platform
• Quick Start Guide
• Constellate Full Documentation
• Constellate 2024 Skill Builder classes

• Guidance on logging in and affiliating yourself with your institution
• Documentation on sharing files from Constellate (including lessons with students)
• Details about the content offered in Constellate
• How to Share Files on Constellate
• A description of the different types of datasets you can create in Constellate
• A 30 minute video exploring text analysis for research.

If you have questions or need help please reach out to:

Amanda DuBose
amdubose@syr.edu
Visual and Performing Arts Librarian
Digital and Open Scholarship team member

Patrick Williams
jpwill03@syr.edu
Humanities Librarian
Lead Librarian for Digital and Open Scholarship

Constellate includes clear learning paths, the ability to easily build data sets using content from JSTOR, Portico and partners, and a lab where you can practice using popular and widely available tools and techniques for text and data analysis. With Constellate...

Faculty can:

• Draw from ready-to-use curriculum and robust on-demand tutorials
• Prepare with live, expert-led classes, including a Teaching Text
• Analysis with Constellate course (free to all members of participating institutions)
• Connect with an inspiring and supportive community of users
• Consult with Constellate experts on research questions and curriculum customization
• Create, save, and share your lessons
• Teach in the preconfigured, cloud-based Constellate Lab

Students can:

• Supplement faculty-led learning with Constellate-taught classes and on-demand tutorials
• Build confidence through hands-on practice in a cloud-based lab
• Seamlessly navigate between content, dataset building, lessons, and research
• Easily build clean datasets with content from JSTOR, Portico, and partners
• Instantly visualize search results to help refine ideas and form research questions

Constellate helps you get insights out of text data. Nonprofit ITHAKA created Constellate because the ability to read, understand, and communicate using text-based data is critical to your success. Constellate is the only text analysis platform that integrates access to scholarly content and open educational resources into a cloud-based lab to help faculty and librarians easily and effectively teach text analysis and data skills.

• What is Text Analysis?
• Use Cases
• How to use Constellate
• For instructors / for researchers

Learn techniques in text and data analysis without code