{"id":36,"date":"2016-04-28T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T00:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:44:52","slug":"week-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/syllabus\/week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4: Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Reflective Essay #4<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Post by 9 am, Monday, July 1<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">After reading and discussing \u201cNeoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,\u201d check out Matthew Kirschenbaum\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mkirschenbaum\/am-i-a-digital-humanist-confessions-of-a-neoliberal-tool-1bc64caaa984\">\u201cAm I a Digital Humanist? Confessions of a Neoliberal Tool\u201d<\/a> and Grace Afsari-Mamagani\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hastac.org\/blogs\/gafsari\/2016\/05\/01\/defense-dh\">\u201cIn Defense of DH.\u201d<\/a> <strong>To what extent do you think the Digital Humanities (inadvertently or not) embraces neoliberal values in higher education?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For some more background information about neoliberalism, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2015\/09\/the-neoliberal-arts\/\">\u201cThe Neoliberal Arts: How college sold its soul to the market\u201d<\/a> by William Deresiewicz.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<h2>Monday, June 24<\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">9-10 am: Meet with Your Librarian Partner<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>Revisit Project Charter<\/em><\/p>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">10 am-Noon: Data Visualization (Public Session, Library 014)<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">In today\u2019s session on data visualization, we will talk through the process of creating a data-based graphic with particular emphasis on the interaction between visual design and quantitative communication. We will create a data visualization from a common data set using pencil and paper, and also use rawgraphs.io to build a web-based data visualization as well.<\/p>\r\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Before the workshop:<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Watch &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization?language=en\">The Beauty of Data Visualization<\/a>&#8221; (18 minutes)<\/li>\r\n<li>Watch &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fallen.io\/ww2\/\">The Fallen of WW2<\/a>&#8221; (18 minutes)<\/li>\r\n<li>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/viz.wtf\">viz.wtf<\/a> and pick out a bad data visualization and be ready to explain why it&#8217;s bad!<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">To Learn More<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Healy, Kieran.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/socviz.co\/lookatdata.html#lookatdata\">Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Chapter 1)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<h2>Wednesday, June 26<\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">9-10 am: Midpoint Check-In (CUB 206)<\/h3>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">10-11 am: DH in Context (Library 018)<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Dr. Jill Titus will present the work her Introduction to Public History (HIST 301) students did creating a digital annotation of the Gettysburg Cyclorama. This is a great opportunity to learn about a project some of your peers were involved in, and you can hear about the process of conceptualizing and overseeing a project of this scale.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Before the<\/strong> <strong>Session<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettysburg.edu\/civil-war-institute\/student-historians\/student-projects\">Read a brief description of the project<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>Take a few minutes to look through some of the work on the <a href=\"http:\/\/jilloglinetitus.sites.gettysburg.edu\/hist301-cyclorama\/history-301\/index\">Gettysburg Cyclorama: A Digital Annotation<\/a> site. Bring 1-2 questions about the project to the session. This could be about the values, the process of planning and creating the project, working with students, anything!<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>Thursday, June 27<\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Noon-1pm: Lunch and Reading Discussion (TBD)<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/neoliberal-tools-archives-political-history-digital-humanities\/\">\u201cNeoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities\u201d By Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Lunch will be provided for the DSSFs.<\/p>\r\n<h2>Friday, June 28<\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">PCLA Digital Scholarship Student Symposium at Lafayette College<\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lafayette.edu\/dhss\/dsmeet2019-digital-scholarship-student-symposium-june-28-2019\/\">Check the event website for more details<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflective Essay #4 Post by 9 am, Monday, July 1 After reading and discussing \u201cNeoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,\u201d check out Matthew Kirschenbaum\u2019s \u201cAm I a Digital Humanist? Confessions of a Neoliberal Tool\u201d and Grace Afsari-Mamagani\u2019s \u201cIn Defense of DH.\u201d To what extent do you think the Digital Humanities (inadvertently &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/syllabus\/week-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 4: Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/2557"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}