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
- Getting Started with Slack: read all items in the “Intro to Slack” section
- Using Slack and Your Slack Profile: Useful information on navigation, accessibility, notifications, and searching
- Do Digital Natives Exist? (video autoplays) I’ve assigned this because I think the “digital natives” problem sums up why many history majors are wary of technology–we’re very good at consuming history online (especially via searching on google or a library database) but have no training in producing history online. Doing digital analysis and learning technology is something you can learn–it’s a skill just like any other!
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 Not about DH, but good professional life advice, especially in an age where much of our professional lives are online.
- How I Use Twitter as an Academic We won’t be using Twitter in this class, but Twitter is where a lot of DH and non-DH academic conversation happens these days.
Assignment: Basic HTML & CSS
Module 1: Discussion Starters
Assignment: Video or audio recording of a team discussion. See the module for details!
Assignment: Working with Data
Module 2: Humanities, Digitally
- 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
Assignment: Data Critique
Assignment: Data Cleaning
Module 3: Reading Data
Everyone
An overview of what measuring and representing data means:
- The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data: Intro
- The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data: Quantification, everything excepting “Sampling” and “The Problem of Measurement Error”
- Avoiding Data Pitfalls
- Useless Data Comparisons
Grad
Assignment: Intro to Colabs
Assignment: Intro to Observable
Module 4: Getting Data
Assignment: API Request Colabs
Assignment: Web Scraping Colabs
Assignment: Georeferencing Colabs
Assignment: Gender Inference
Module 5: Using Data
Everyone
This looks like a lot of reading this week, but each individual chapter is fairly short!
Basic vocabulary and orientation to reading different kinds of charts:
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 3.1, Cartesian Coordinates
- Disregard the rest of the chapter after 3.1
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 4, Color Scales
Understanding and reading different kinds of charts
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 6, Visualizing Amounts
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 7.1, Visualizing a Single Distribution
- Read only the section on single histograms. We will not be dealing with or making the other kinds of distribution charts in this chapter.
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 10, Visualizing Proportions
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 11, Visualizing Nested Proportions
- Disregard the final section on parallel sets, which we will not be making or using
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 12 Intro and 12.1, Visualizing Associations
- Disregard all sections of this chapter after 12.1
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization Ch 13, Visualizing Time Series
- Disregard the final section on “Time series of two or more variables”
Grad
- Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination read through all 6 exhibits
Assignment: Intro to Tableau
Module 6: Breather
- Chapter 29, “Telling a Story and Making a Point” of Fundamentals of Data Visualization
Module 7: Networks
Everyone
- 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
Assignment: Networks Colab (optional)
Assignment: Networks Observable (optional)
Module 8: Maps
Everyone
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization, Ch 17-23, excluding chapter 18
- What is Spatial History?
- Explore one of the projects by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond.
- Mapping the 1854 Cholera Outbreak
- What is GIS?
- 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.
- 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