This week we have a discussion starter on the Stanford “Datavisualization and the Modern Imagination” exhibit at Stanford to help us think through the long history of data visualization and interpreting visualizations. This week will look like a lot of reading in the “Fundamentals of Data Visualization” book, but many of the sections are quite […]
This week we have no discussion starter video and no reading because we have 4 longer assignments and a post on the course site. Highlights for this week include the corniest shit I have ever said on video, because this week will probably be hard because it involves a lot of new concepts and understanding […]
This week we have a discussion starter on the data and its representations pieces up on Blackboard. For the reading this week, keep in mind that there are multiple headings in the Quantification chapter of The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data; I want you to read everything except Sampling and Quantified Error and The Problem […]
Well done on the discussion starter videos. All groups’ videos are now up on Blackboard or embedded on the course site and they all look really good. This week we have a discussion starter on the Trouillout and Putnam pieces up on Blackboard. I suggest reading the two pieces, then watching the video and responding […]
Having now survived Module 0, congrats–you now have the two major skills you need to do well in this course and in digital humanities work broadly: patience and persistence! There was a lot to juggle last week between getting new accounts set up, working with new technical skills, and our theoretical introduction to new modes […]
Today is the first day of class! If you haven’t already done so, you should start working through the Module 0 page today, where you will find a roadmap of expectations for the semester, your first assignments, and the pandora playlists I would be inflicting upon you if this were a face to face class. This afternoon […]
For those of you who I haven’t worked with before, I’m Prof. Kane and I’m an early Americanist working on Indigenous women’s history in what’s now New York; a lot of the sample data we’ll be working with this semester will be from my own research. I use she/her pronouns, and if you have preferred […]