# Introduction

In these notebook, you will see how to get started with text wrangling and taking simple metrics like word frequency from a large text. These skills, though very straightforward, will be critical as a foundation for future work. Be sure to study every line of code and that you have a good idea of how each one is working. Additionally, take note of the pattern that we follow in these notebooks -- that we take small sample of the text, test our code on this sample, and then generalize it to the whole text. This will be a consistent method that we follow in the other notebooks.

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- header: "{fas}`book` A Gentle Introduction to Natural Language Processing"
  content: "Get glimspe at NLP while investigating Leo Tolstoy's *War and Peace*."
  link: "./gentleintroto-nlp-1.html"

- header: "{fas}`book` An Invitiation to Regular Expressions"
  content: "Explore the utilities and complexities of Regular Expressions."
  link: "./regex-intro.html"
```