Week 3: Data

Wireframes

Post images of your wireframes to the DSSF19 website by 9 am, Friday, June 25. Use the Category Wireframes. These can be photos of paper wireframes you have taken, images using programs designed for wireframing, or a PowerPoint, PDF, or other document. Briefly describe your wireframes as well.

Reflective Post #2

Post by 9am on Monday, June 28

In our first day, we touched on the values listed in Lisa Spiro’s book chapter “This is Why We Fight: Defining the Values of the Digital Humanities.” Reflect upon how the DSSF cohort has functioned as a community of practice, using the values in the chapter as a foundation. How has your experience working together on the micro-project demonstrated these values?  How has/will this collaborative experience working on the micro-project make your own independent project stronger?

Monday, June 21

9:30–10am: Monday Check-In

10am-Noon: Extra Office Hours!

Register here for the Zoom link: https://libcal.gettysburg.edu/event/7952198

Drop in at any time during these two hours if you’d like to talk more about specific tools or topics we’ve covered recently. Digital Scholarship Committee members will be available to answer questions or help troubleshoot any issues you’re experiencing.

Tuesday, June 22

10am–Noon: Network Anaysis and Onodo Workshop (NEW DATE)

Register here: https://libcal.gettysburg.edu/event/7879292

Network analysis is a way to find relationships between things. Think of it along the lines of the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon … if you’ve ever played this, you’ve already done network analysis! Today we will look at a few different ways network analysis is part of the Digital Humanities conversation and develop a basic network visualization with the Onodo tool.

Before the Workshop

  • Watch Introduction to Network Diagrams (2 mins) to learn some basic vocabulary
  • Read Weingart, Scott. “Demystifying Networks” to get some more in-depth background information about network analysis (don’t worry about unpacking the more technical parts)
  • Create an onodo.org account and make one practice network using your favorite movie, book, game, show, etc. (you’ll be sharing your practice network during the workshop)
    • Onodo has 4 tutorials (6 mins total) that walk through everything you need to know to create and share a practice network

If You Want to Learn More

Wednesday, June 23

10am–Noon: Text Analysis and Voyant Tools Workshop

Register here: https://libcal.gettysburg.edu/event/7879355

Text analysis in digital scholarship takes large bodies of texts (corpora) and uses digital tools to find relationships between words and concepts. This sort of analysis has been happening for decades, to the point where the first thing many scholars think about when discussing digital humanities is text analysis. While it is difficult to learn, projects like Google’s Ngram Viewer has made working with texts easier. Today, we’ll look at some text analysis projects and the tools behind them, including Voyant Tools.

Before the Workshop

If You Want to Learn More

Thursday, June 24

10am–Noon: Data Visualization Workshop

Register here: https://libcal.gettysburg.edu/event/7879331

How do we use data to make meaning? Can data make you feel something? What even count as “data”? Data visualizations can offer a shortcut to understanding information and help researchers make stories from raw knowledge. In today’s session, we’ll talk about how data visualizations work and how they can be used to teach, reveal, and persuade. You’ll also have the opportunity to practice drafting your own visualizations.

Before the workshop:

To Learn More

ReadHealy, Kieran. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Chapter 1).
Watch “The Beauty of Data Visualization” (18 minutes)

Friday, June 25

9:30–10am: Weekly Updates and Planning

10am–Noon: Optional Office Hours

Register here for the Zoom link: https://libcal.gettysburg.edu/event/7926334

Drop in at any time during these two hours if you’d like to talk more about specific tools or topics we’ve covered recently. Digital Scholarship Committee members will be available to answer questions or help troubleshoot any issues you’re experiencing.

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