Halfway through my PhD candidature in linguistics at Melbourne Uni, I was introduced by Fiona to the ResPlat family. One of their aims, I was told, was to train researchers across the university in emerging tools and methods for doing better, more reproducible research. A specific target of this agenda was the Humanities and Social Sciences, who, let's admit, sometimes lag behind a little when it comes to engagement with digital tools and methods.
IMAGE OF RESPLAT http://67.media.tumblr.com/ede2ddf22557269fd92dd13c4b344c53/tumblr_inline_nk9gcyW6pE1ssbz72.jpg "ResPlat Family"
My thesis was about corpus linguistics—that is, using computers to locate patterns in large collections of written text. Because of this, Fiona asked me if I could come on board and help out, teaching Python to researchers around the university, but with extra focus on those from the humanities. A key issue among corpus linguists, however, is that many don't really know how to code. A more common w