Welcome to the Digital Humanities
...now what in the heck are they and what do you have to do to succeed in this course
Basic Definitions
Problems of Terms: A Non-inclusive List
What DH is Not
A Few Examples
GIS & Mapping
Mapping Unrealities
Network Analysis
Some Ancient Applications
Text Analysis
Text Analysis
Diving Right into Data
You Enter a Dungeon...
From Math to Text
Between Logic and Language: Programming
Basic Data Concept: Plain Text
Basic Data Concept: Plain Text (HTML)
Basic Data Concept: Plain Text (CSV)
How I Got into DH
Eleusis, The Shrine of the Mysteries and a Mysterious Man
Networks in Stone
Networks of Commemoration
Those Who First Inspired Me
Jean Bauer
Shawn Graham
Miriam Posner
What You Will Learn to Do
1) Scrape Data from the Web
2) Clean and Transform Data En Masse
3) Visually Analyze Results
4) Research Digital Scholarship & Compose Your Analysis
5) Publish Your Work Openly
6) Most Critically: Think About Data Critically
Previous Student Work
Confederate Memorials
The Slave Ledgers
An Teanga Sean, The Celtic Languages