Datasets
November 20th, 2015
Module 1: Digital Storytelling
- ArcGIS Map Tour
- ArcGIS Map Tour Sample CSV Files
- https://www.youtube.com/embed/
- Exercise: Mao’s Biography on Britannica –> Mao’s Biography Map Tour
- Story Map JS Gigapixel
- Mao Propaganda Art
- https://www.googledrive.com/host/
- Image Search Engine
Module 2: Distant Reading
- State of the Union Addresses in U.S. History
- Speeches by Human Rights Activists
- Project Gutenberg
- Wikisource
- Archive.org
- DH Toychest: Data Collections and Datasets by Alan Liu
- This site lists several text collections for ready use.
- For collections of images, go to our course’s project space (projects > FOUN098-55 > private > Student ‘Read-only’)
Module 3: Network Visualization
- Paul Revere Dataset
- Correspondence Networks from 11C and 13C
- Kinship of Prefectural Governors from 11C and 13C
- Literary Collections of Lu Xun
- Kung I-Chi Spreadsheet
Module 4: Spatial Visualization
1. Visualizing Networks in Geographical Space
2. Quick Mapping Online
3. Practice Datasets for CartoDB and Tableau
4. Data Sources for Spatial Humanities
- Free GIS Data (recommended)
- Resources for Spatial Humanities (recommended)
- University of Virginia GIS data on US history
- Core Data Sources (University of Houston Library)
- Digital Humanities: GIS Data (University of Toledo)
- NHGIS Data Finder
- TIGER/Line Census Data
- American FactFinder (US Census Data)