Before the hands-on session, make sure Python 3.6 or higher is installed.
Then install Text-Fabric and Jupyter.
Do it by following the instructions in the Text-Fabric docs
After that install seaborn, a python library for graphic plots:
pip install seaborn
or
pip3 install seaborn
(if you have installed Text-Fabric you know which)
The list of available corpora is here.
There are hands-on guides for
Each hands-on guide takes you through the activities of browsing the corpus, searching it, and collecting information that cannot easily expressed as a search instruction.
These three corpora differ in data features, section structure, granularity, richness of data features. That is why the toy problems in these hands on are different. It is worth studying all three of them.
Head over to the hands-on guide corpus of your prime interest by clicking one of the three links above.
These guides will let you download the corpus data.
Please do that before the hands-on session.