Schedule
Unit 1 / Text
Thursday, 9/6/18
- Introductions and course overview
- Getting to know you survey
- Lecture: what is data in the humanities?
- Lab: environment setup
- Lab: domain setup with Reclaim Hosting
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
- Digital_Humanities, chap 1
- Technology Is Taking Over English Departments: The false promise of the digital humanities
- What is Data? (if this link doesn't work, try this one)
- Defining Data for Humanists: Text, Artifact, Information or Evidence?
Tuesday, 9/11/18
- Kellie Harra to share Rewriting the Code
- Discussion: readings
- Lecture: How the internet works
- Lab: CPanel
- Lab: HTML + CSS
- Slides
Read for Thursday:
- We Can All Be Technical With the Right Teacher
- Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code (including the comments)
- How Computers Work
- Review Introduction to Windows Command Line with Powershell (Windows people)
- Review Introduction to the Bash Command Line (Mac people)
Thursday, 9/13/18
- Readings discussion
- Lab: HTML/CSS cont.
- Lab: command line (Command Line Crash Course)
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
- Intro to Text Analysis workbook by Profs. Brandon Walsh and Sarah Horowitz
- read the Intro, Issues in Text Analysis, and Close Reading.
Tuesday, 9/18/18
Methodology review
- Lecture: 4 ways to read a text
- Lab: text analysis by hand
Read for Thursday:
- The Historian's Macroscope, "Who We Are..." through "Chapter One Conclusion" (see table of contents)
- Oh and also Why We're All Digital Now!
Due on Thursday:
- Unit 1 Methodology Review
Thursday, 9/20/18
Methodology review
Data introduction
- Assignment: Methodology review due to your Box folder by 2:45pm. Be prepared to share.
- Data set introduction
- Lab: RTP scavenger hunt
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
- Beginning with Regular Expressions
- Cleaning OCR'd text with regular expressions
- How Computers Read Texts + Distant Reading + Problems with Data from Text Analysis Coursebook
Tuesday, 9/25/18
Data cleanup
Guest speaker: Prof. Jason Mickel, slides + answer key For Thursday:
Please spend some time in the RTP text files with the following questions in mind:
- What potential research questions interest you the most?
- Even if the project seems too big for execution now, what type of text analysis methods would you like to pursue?
- What would make the RTP easier to work with?
- Specifically, what can you do to the text files to make them easier to work with?
Review the Assignments page for Unit 1. Bring questions.
Read: Argument Clinic
- Look over: Lexos Manual
Thursday, 9/27/18
Data clean up + project work
- Lab: data exploration, cleanup
- Lab: project prep + Lexos
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
- The Historian's Macroscope, "Making Your Data Legible" through "Making an Effective Visualization." (Don't worry about implementing all these suggestions, we will continue to work with visualizations in the next two units.)
Due Tuesday
- Research Question
Tuesday, 10/2/18
Data viz + project work
- Assignment: research question due
- Lab: text analysis tools + individual consults
- Slides
Read for Thursday:
Thursday, 10/4/18
Project work + documentation
- Lab: documentation
- Slides
All Unit 1 assignments due 10/9/18 by 2:45pm
Unit 2 Network
Tuesday, 10/9/18
Methodology review
- Unit 1 project debrief. Be prepared to share your results for Unit 1.
- Guest speaker: Alex Farley '19 + Kellie Harra
Read for Tuesday the 16th:
- Networks Analysis
- Demystifying Networks, Parts 1-2
- Network Theory, Plot Analysis (don't panic, it's mostly graphs)
Due Tuesday the 16th: methodology review
Thursday, 10/11/18
No class, reading days
Tuesday, 10/16/18
Methodology review
- Assignment: project review due by 2:30pm. Be prepared to share.
- Discussion: readings + assignment
- Slides
For Thursday:
- From Hermeneutics to Data to Networks: Data Extraction and Network Visualization of Historical Sources (look over)
- An Entry of One’s Own, or Why Are There So Few Women In the Early Modern Social Network?
Thursday, 10/18/18
- Critical DH discussion?
- Data set introduction
- Visit to Special Collections?
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
- Databases for people who don't know a whole lot about them
- Install Open Refine
- Watch "What is Linked Data?" by Manu Sporny
- Review this Programming Historian Lesson: "Using SPARQL to access Linked Open Data" and "Cleaning Data with Open Refine"
Tuesday, 10/23/18
Data structures
Data cleanup
- Lecture: linked data
- Lecture: How to structure data
- Lab: Open Refine
- Slides
Attend "How Big Data Increases Inequality and Destroys Democracy" Cathy O'Neil: 10/24 at 5:30 PM in Northen and write a blog post for participation point
Thursday, 10/25/18
Network analysis tools
Read for Tuesday
- Data + Design, chapters on data cleaning and visualization (and more!)
- When the Designer Shows up in the Design
Due Tuesday: Research question
Tuesday, 10/30/18
Project work
- Activity 5
Prepare 1-2 network visualizations and 1 piece of documentation for peer review on Thursday
Thursday, 11/1/18
Project work + Documentation
- Peer review of documentation, visualizations
- Slides
All Unit 2 assignments due Tuesday 11/6 by 2:45pm.
Unit 3 Space
Tuesday, 11/6/18
Methodology review
- Unit 2 presentations
- Don't forget to vote!
- Intro to Unit 3
- Slides
Read for Thursday:
Thursday, 11/8/183
Methodology review
- Guest speaker: Sean Tennant from UVa
Read for Tuesday:
- Visualizing the Railway Space in Fontane’s Effi Briest
- The Geographic Imagination of Civil War-Era American Fiction
Unit 3 Methodology Review due Tuesday, 11/13
Tuesday, 11/13/18
Methodology review + Data
- Methodology review discussion
- Lab: collaborative research
- Unit 3 prep + planning
- Slides
Read for Thursday:
Thursday, 11/15/18
Methodology review + Data
- Lecture: open data
- Activity 2: Data Assessment
- Slides
Read for Tuesday:
Research question due Tuesday the 27th
Thanksgiving break
Tuesday, 11/27/18
Methodology review + Data
- Activity 3: Mapping tools sandbox
- Data set/project approval and consults
Thursday, 11/29/18
project work
For Tuesday: Prepare for peer review by embedding your map onto your website and posting your project narrative.
Tuesday, 12/4/18
project work + peer review
- Activity 4
- course evals
Thursday, 12/6/18
wrap up
- Unit 3 presentations
Unit 3 assignments due 12/6/18 at 2:45pm