Introduction to Data and DH

Pre-Activities (Before the Session)

Readings

• Davis, H. (2019). “A Dataset is a Worldview,” a blog post on Towards Data Science, a Medium vertical.
  This short post is about datasets used in machine learning. But the idea that a dataset reflects a worldview is just as relevant to the creation of metadata schema as to corpus creation.

• Onouha, M. (2016). “On Missing Datasets,” documentation of a mixed media art installation.
  And View the photos of the installation on the artist’s website.

• D’Ignazio C. and L. Klein (2020). “The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves,” In Data Feminism, MIT Press.

• Posner, M. (2018). Digital Humanities. In M. Kackman, M. C. Kearney, & M. Kackman (Eds.), The craft of criticism: Critical media studies in practice. Routledge.

Session Activities

Introductions and GitHub Intro

Let’s get to know each other and the platform we’ll be using this summer!

Introduction to Digital Humanities and Data as a Worldview (1 hour)

List of Projects

Post-session Reflections

Daily Comment

Please post a reflection on something you learned today or that you would still like to learn.

Some questions to consider:

• What do you wish you understood better?
• What have you learned today that was or might be especially useful?
• Think about the data (or sources) that will underlie your own project. What issues do you foresee you may need to address as you assemble, process, analyze, and present your data?