ProQuest TDM Studio: Information, Tutorials, and Workshops

ProQuest TDM Studio is a web platform for running text analyses on thousands of ProQuest materials, including but not limited to, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and the New York Times.

Getting started

• Please visit our guide for details on how to access ProQuest TDM Studio Visualizations and Workbench
  • Create an account for TDM Studio Visualizations using your University of Toronto email address
  • Apply for Workbench access using your Visualizations account
• Please consult the TDM Studio Official User Guide for additional information

Learning resources

Workshops

Text Analysis Tasting Menu: A Sampling of Available Tools

• This workshop covers a number of text and data mining tools, including ProQuest TDM Studio (start at 30:37 for a short demo)
• Download the accompanying slides and a cheat sheet comparing various text analysis platforms

Additional resources

• University of Southern California’s overview of content mining
• Dartmouth’s ProQuest TDM Studio guide
• NYU’s data science and text mining guide
• Carnegie Mellon University’s Text and Data Mining with TDM Studio
• University of Chicago’s TDM Studio guide

Technique: Data Visualization, Text and Data Mining, Extracting data

Date Created: 2022-05-09 Updated: 2023-06-02