Digital Humanities Intro Workshop: Building and Using Data Sets

Catalog description

HMN 303 teaches students how to access, interpret, transform, and create digital humanities data sets from sources such as collections of historical texts, databases of audio records or videos, image collections, survey results, and others. Students will learn how to assemble multiple sources and formats into usable forms such as spreadsheets, arrays, and databases, while also exploring tools such as computer vision and machine learning that allow for media such as digital photography or video to be translated into quantitative and qualitative data that can, in turn, be processed and analyzed computationally or further processed into other outputs, such as visualizations and graphs. This workshop will focus primarily on the preparing and manipulation of data sets, rather than on their processing into other outputs, as these different alternatives for processing data sets into higher-level research products is covered in other workshops such as