| Module | Monday (begin) | Wednesday (Zoom/response) | Friday (post) |
| 0: Getting Started | Feb 1 | Feb 3 | Feb 5 |
| 1: Discussion Starters | Feb 8 | Feb 10 | Feb 12 |
| 2: Humanities, Digitally | Feb 15 | Feb 17 | Feb 19 |
| 3: Thinking with Data | Feb 22 | Feb 24 | Feb 26 |
| 4: Getting Data | Mar 1 | Mar 3 | Mar 5 |
| 5: Using Data | Mar 8 | Mar 10 | Mar 12 |
| 6: Breather | Mar 15 | Mar 17 | Mar 19 |
| 7: Networks | Mar 22 | Mar 24 | Mar 26 |
| 8: Maps | Mar 29 | Mar 31 | Apr 2 |
| 9: Work | Apr 5 | Apr 7 | Apr 9 |
| 10: Work | Apr 12 | Apr 14 | Apr 16 |
| 11: Work | Apr 19 | Apr 21 | Apr 23 |
| 12: Work | Apr 26 | Apr 28 | Apr 30 |
| 13: Conference | May 3 | May 5 | May 7 |
| Final project due | May 14 |
Module 0: Getting Started
Everyone:
- Arguing with Digital History working group, “Digital History and Argument,” white paper, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
- (November 13, 2017): https://rrchnm.org/argument-white-paper/
- WordPress Editor orientation
- Slack 101
- Do Digital Natives Exist? (video autoplays)
Grad:
- Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, “Introduction: Why Data Science Needs Feminism,” in Data Feminism (PubPub, 2020), https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/frfa9szd/release/3.
- Ten Commandments of Grad School
- How I Use Twitter as an Academic
Module 1: Discussion Starters
Due:
- Video or audio recording of a team discussion. See the module for details!
- Basic HTML & CSS
- Working with Data I
Module 2: Humanities, Digitally
Everyone:
- Michel Trouillot 1-31 [PDF download]
- Lara Putnam, “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast,” The American Historical Review, Volume 121, Issue 2, (April 2016): 377–402, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.2.377
Grad:
- Lauren F. Klein, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings.” American Literature 1 December 2013; 85 (4): 661–688. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367310 [download PDF if unavailable through the library]
Due:
- Intro to Observable
- Intro to Colab
Module 3: Reading Data
Due: Data critique
- Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization, Intro
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 2, Visualizing Data
- The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data: Intro
- The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data: Quantification, excepting “Sampling” and “The Problem of Measurement Error”
- New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 3.1, Cartesian Coordinates (disregard the rest of this chapter)
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 4, Color Scales
- Avoiding Data Pitfalls
- Useless Data Comparisons
Grad:
- The History Manifesto (excepting chapters 1 and 3)
Module 4: Getting Data
Due: Calling an API
Due: Data Cleaning
Module 5: Using Data
Due: Visualization post
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch5, “Directory of Visualizations”
- How Histograms Work
- Exploring Histograms
- Ask the Question, Visualize the Answer
- One Dataset, 25 Ways (Click to view ALL the charts and be prepared to discuss why each does/does not work!)
- Useful for your assignment: DataViz Project and The Data Viz Catalogue
- The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data: Analysis, excepting “Accounting for Chance,” “Counting Possible Worlds,” “Arguing from the Odds,” and “Statistical Interference”
- The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data: Communication, excepting “Prediction”
Grad:
- Putting Big Data to Good Use
- Big, Smart, Clean, Messy: Data in the Humanities
- Where are the Individuals in Data-Driven Narratives?
- Reading Digital Sources
- Visualizations and Historical Arguments
Module 6: Breather
Module 7: Networks
- The Wisdom And/Or Madness of Crowds
- Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere
- Following Up on Paul Revere
- Mapping Shakespeare’s Tragedies
- Maeve Kane, All One People
Grad
- Maeve Kane, “For Wagrassero’s Son: Colonialism and the Structure of Indigenous Women’s Social Connections, 1690–1730.” The Journal of Early American History. (2017) https://doi.org/10.1163/18770703-00702002 [Not available through UAlbany, please download PDF]
- Robert Michael Morrissey, “Archives of Connection.” Historical Methods, 48:2 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2014.962208
Module 8: Maps
Due: Geocoding
Everyone:
- What is Spatial History?
- What is GIS?
- The Oak of Jerusalem
- The Mapping of Massacres in Australia
- The Little-Seen Maps and Stories of Women in Cartography
- Historical Maps Made by 19th Century Women Cartographers
Grad:
- Rose-Redwood, Reuben, Natchee Blu Barnd, Annita Hetoevėhotohke’e Lucchesi, Sharon Dias, and Wil Patrick. “Decolonizing the Map: Recentering Indigenous Mappings.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 55, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 151–62. https://doi.org/10.3138/cart.53.3.intro.
- Jen Jack Gieseking. “Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities.” American Quarterly70, no. 3 (2018): 641-648. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/704349
- Cameron Blevins, Space, Nation, and the Triumph of Region: A View of the World from Houston, Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 122–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau184