As digital humanities practitioners at a small liberal arts college, it\u2019s important to be aware of criticism of digital humanities work, as well as negative perceptions of liberal arts schools. Read the following article:<\/p>\n
\u201cNeoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities\u201d<\/a> By Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, David Golumbia<\/p>\n Given what you have learned so far about digital humanities and digital scholarship, what is your reaction to this article? Do you agree with the authors, disagree, or somewhere in between? Make sure you are acquainted with the concept of neoliberalism<\/a>. The article \u201cThe Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market\u201d<\/a> by\u00a0William Deresiewicz may provide some additional context.\u00a0Once you\u2019ve read the article and formulated some thoughts, check out some responses<\/a>. Feel free to incorporate their arguments into yours, or refute them.<\/p>\n At this year’s PaLA conference at Bucknell, keynote speaker Laurie Allen said “The web is not a good platform for making permanent, stable knowledge.” \u00a0This is all the more reason for digital scholars to make the data behind that knowledge available, usable, and recoverable. \u00a0Today we will discuss what research data is and the importance of treating data with the same care as a finished scholarly project.<\/p>\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. While relationships between data may or not may be apparent simply from looking at them as numbers, adding a visualization to the dataset can enhance its value (or even be deceptive …). Today, we\u2019ll look at ways to visualize data, as well as the datasets that live underneath the presentation, and also get started with Tableau Public, a powerful tool that allows us to take a dataset and create visualizations from it.<\/p>\n We will use this time to either make up a session that we had to cancel, or to go over something that needs additional time.<\/p>\n Use today’s session to give an update on your research. Talk about a particularly interesting connection you have discovered, an important asset you want to work with, or something that has frustrated you so far. The lightning round will be for both cohorts.<\/p>\n Blog Post – Due Wednesday, July 5 As digital humanities practitioners at a small liberal arts college, it\u2019s important to be aware of criticism of digital humanities work, as well as negative perceptions of liberal arts schools. Read the following article: \u201cNeoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities\u201d By Daniel Allington, Sarah … <\/p>\nMonday, June 26<\/h2>\n
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n
9am-Noon: Workshop: Data Management and Data Cleanup with Open Refine (Library 014, Public Session)<\/h3>\n
Readings and Assignments<\/h4>\n
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Noon-1pm: Lunch (on your own)<\/h3>\n
1pm-4:30pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Tuesday, June 27<\/h2>\n
8am-4:30pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Wednesday, June 28<\/h2>\n
8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n
9am-Noon: Workshop: Visualizing Data with Tableau Public (Library 014, Public Session)<\/h3>\n
Readings and Assignments<\/h4>\n
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Further Readings<\/h5>\n
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Data Visualizations<\/h5>\n
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Noon-1pm: DSSF Lunch (TBD)<\/h3>\n
1pm-4:30pm:\u00a0Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Thursday, June 29<\/h2>\n
8am-4:30pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n
Friday,\u00a0June 30<\/h2>\n
8:30am-9am: Check-In<\/h3>\n
9am-11am: Flex Time\u00a0(Library 014)<\/h3>\n
11am-Noon: Lighting Round Presentations (Library 014, Public Session)<\/h3>\n
Noon-1pm: Lunch (on your own)<\/h3>\n
1pm-4:30pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"