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The Computational Thinking and Learning Initiative co-sponsored a textual analysis working group during the fall 2019 semester. The members of the working group, including four undergraduate Library Buchanan Fellows, learned how to analyze textual data at different scales, looking for hidden patterns in their data and finding ways to represent query results succinctly. During the first half of the semester, the students learned the rudiments of XQuery, a query language that excels at finding…