ICE BREAKER: Favorite thing about fall

argument clinic

"Historical questions don’t pop out of thin air, but from a continuously shifting relationship with the past." - Scott Weingart

scalable reading

1. start with description
2. barrage with visualizations/stats
3. look for surprises
4. internal comparisons

computationally tractable questions?

explore the data

• where are the patterns?
• what do we expect?
• what's missing?
• what can we compare it to?
• where can we find more context?

craft your research question

• what topic do you want to explore?
• what questions do you have?
• what questions can you answer with this data?
• with these methods?
• what can you answer now vs. later?

Lexos!

https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/special-projects-initiatives/lexomics/lexos-installers/

process

• decide on date range
• create subset
• clean dirty OCR
• prepare with Lexos
• visualize with ?
• analyze results
• repeat!

data assessment

• see Unit 1 / Activities
• feedback if submitted by Tuesday