{"id":42,"date":"2016-04-28T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:00:03","slug":"week-7-data-visualization-and-text-analysis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/syllabus\/week-7-data-visualization-and-text-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7 – Data Visualization and Text Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog Post\u00a0– Due\u00a0Monday, July 11<\/h2>\n

What could be a dataset from your research that could potentially be integrated into a future version of your project, and what method of visualization would enhance the presentation of your research? Think about the information you have gathered and presented and how it could be manipulated into a spreadsheet or database. It doesn\u2019t have to be a large dataset, nor does it have to be something you are working with directly. Reading Picking the Right Visualization for Your Data<\/a> may help you think of a way to present it.<\/p>\n

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Technology, especially in higher education, is often disruptive and intrusive; similarly, Digital Humanities is sometimes viewed as a disruptive way of doing research in the humanities. There can be a lot of pushback from traditional humanists who see DH as reducing their work to\u00a0just bits of data and its manipulation, which is seen as not being as valuable as reading and writing traditional research.<\/p>\n

In light of last week’s blog post, read\u00a0Matthew Kirschenbaum’s “Am I a Digital Humanist? Confessions of a Neoliberal Tool<\/a>” and Roopika Risam’s “Digital Humanities in Other Contexts<\/a>” as counterpoints to the LARB article. Are their views more in line with how you view Digital Humanities\/Scholarship? Why do you think Digital Humanities provokes such strong reactions from both its practitioners and detractors (who are sometimes the same people)? Do you ever see “digital” being dropped from Digital Humanities, and it just is doing the humanities?<\/p>\n

Monday, July 4<\/h2>\n

Independence Day<\/p>\n

Tuesday, July 5<\/h2>\n

8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n

9am-Noon: Research\/Project Work<\/h3>\n

Noon-1pm: Lunch (On Your Own)<\/h3>\n

1pm-5pm: Research\/Project Work<\/h3>\n

Wednesday, July 6<\/h2>\n

8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n

9am-Noon: Datasets and Visualization in Digital Scholarship (Library 014, Public Session)<\/h3>\n

Miriam Posner defines data visualization<\/a> as \u201cGraphical representation of data. We visualize data so that it\u2019s easier to notice aspects and features of the data. Our current moment is obsessed with data visualization, perhaps because we\u2019re moving so quickly that there\u2019s more information to sift through. It\u2019s also expected that we do more now, because we have these tools.\u201d With so much data to try to process, and not enough time to do so, it makes sense to process it in a way that appeals to visual culture. Today, we\u2019ll look at ways to visualize data, as well as the datasets that live underneath the presentation. In addition,\u00a0Divonna Stebick, Associate Professor of Education, will discuss her use of data visualization with young adult literature and how she integrated it into her classes, and Sharon Birch from Educational Technology will give insight about how she helped bring the project to life.<\/p>\n