Schedule
Week 1 (Aug 25, 27):
Tuesday: Introduction to (Humanities) Visualization
Thursday: Visualizations: Past and Present
- Read: Philosophical Assumptions Behind Visualizations
- Scott Weingart, “Connecting the Dots”
- Explore: Diversity and Creativity in Visualization
- Lab: Information Literacy (Bibliographical Management)
Module I. Experience, Visuals, and Narratives
Week 2 (Sep 1, 3):
Tuesday: Preservation and Reconstruction
- Read: Reflections on Virtual Reality
- Computer, Visualization, and History, ch.4 (“Virtual History”)
- “An Exploration of Deep Maps” and “Defining Deep Maps”
- Joe Dempsey, et al., “Pudding Lane: Recreating Seventeenth-Century London,” Journal of Digital Humanities, 1 (2014)
- Explore: Virtual Experience of the Past
- Set 1: China Local ; Streets of Paris photographed by Charles Marville in 19C and Martin Krieger today; Google’s Street Art Project
- Set 2: Virtual Harlem ; the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair ; Digital Roman Forum and Rome Reborn ; Virtual Morgantown ; King’s Visualization Laboratory @ King’s College London
- Lab: Information Literacy (Writing)
- Concept maps / mind maps: Bubbl.us
Thursday: Time(s) and Timelines
- Read: Conceptions of Time and the Evolution of Timelines
- Explore: Digital Chronography
- ChronoZoom
- Examples from Timeline JS or TimeMapper or Timeglider
- Lab: Create a Time-based Narrative
Week 3 (Sep 8, 10):
Tuesday: Mapping Stories and Story Maps
- Read:
- Margaret Wickens Pearce, “Framing the Days: Place and Narrative in Cartography”
- Sébastien Caquard, “Cartography I: Mapping Narrative Cartography,” Progress in Human Geography, 37.1 (2011): 135-144.
- Mei-po Kwan, “From Oral Histories to Visual Narratives: Re-presenting the Post-September 11 Experiences of the Muslim Women in the USA,” Social & Cultural Geography, 9.6 (2008): 653-69 [optional]
- Explore:
- Set 1: GapVis: Google Ancient Places
- Set 2: Histories of the National Mall; The Map of Early Modern London @ University of Victoria; Valley of the Shadow; Salem Witch Trials Project
- Set 3: ESRI Story Map Gallery
- Lab: Create a Place-Based Narrative
- Story Map Tour Step-by-Step @ ArcGIS Online
Thursday: Hypertext and “Deep” Graphs
- Read: Are Narratives Always Linear?
- Thorsten Schreiber, English Literatures on the Internet, Ch.2 (“Hypertext Theory”)
- Davida Charney, “The Effect of Hypertext on Processes of Reading and Writing,” in Literacy and Computers, pp. 238-263.
- Explore:
- Lies by Rick Pryll (a short piece of hypertext fiction)
- Whitney Trettien, Computers, Cut-Ups, & Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms, 2009.
- Neatline Exhibits
- A Closer Look at the Inaugural Ceremony
- The Qingming Scroll
- Lab: Tell a Story through Annotations
Week 4 (Sep 15, 17):
Tuesday: Project 1 (Digital Storytelling) Tutorial
Thursday: Project 1 (Digital Storytelling) Presentations
- Start working on Writing Assignment 1
Module II. “Distant Reading”
Week 5 (Sep 22, 24):
Tuesday: Let’s Count! How to Read Texts from a Distance (“Distant Reading”)
- Read:
- [optional] Franco Moretti. “ Conjectures on World Literature.” New Left Review. January-February 2000
- [optional] Katherine Hayles, “How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine,” ADE Bulletin 150 (2010)
- Jacob Harris, “ Word Clouds Considered Harmful,” in Nieman Journalism Lab, Oct. 11, 2011
- Explore:
- Lab: Word Clouds and Word Networks
- Writing Program Activity: Concept Map Discussion for Writing Assignment 1
- Writing Assignment 1: Concept map due before class
Thursday: “Knowing a Word by the Company It Keeps”: Topic Modeling
- Read:
- Ted Underwood, “Topic modeling made just simple enough”
- Matthew L. Jockers, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History, Ch.8 (“Theme”)
- Explore:
- Topical Guide
- Brad Borevitz’s State of the Union site OR SpeechWars
- [optional] Mining the Dispatch (read the “Introduction” to get an idea of what topic modeling is, and explore the “Topics” page to see how it works)
- Lab:
- Paper Machines for Zotero
Week 6 (Sep 29, Oct 1):
Tuesday: “Reading” Images from a Distance (I)
- Read:
- Lev Manovich. “How to Compare One Million Images?” In David Berry, ed., Understanding Digital Humanities (Palgrave, 2012).
- Lev Manovich, “The Meaning of Statistics and Digital Humanities”
- Lab: Visualizing Image Collections
- Writing Assignment 1: First draft due before class
Thursday: “Reading” Images from a Distance (II)
- Read:
- Explore:
- Writing Program Activity: Peer Review Workshop
- Lab: Quantitative Analysis of Images
Week 7 (Oct 6, 8):
Tuesday: Project 2 (Distant Reading) Tutorial
- Writing Assignment 1: Final essay due before class
Thursday: Project 2 (Distant Reading) Presentations
- Start working on Writing Assignment 2
Module III. Understanding Structural Patterns
Week 8 (Oct 13, 15):
Tuesday: Fall Recess (No Class)
Thursday: From Contents to Structures: An Alternative Way of Reading a Text from Distance (or by Not Reading It At All!)
- Read: Meta Data and Graph Theory
- Explore: Visualizing Influence
- Lab: From Discourse to Named Entities
- Writing Program Activity: Concept Map Discussion for Writing Assignment 2
- Writing Assignment 2: Concept map due before class
Week 9 (Oct 20, 22):
Tuesday: Structure from Contents: Networks from Topic Models
- Read:
- Elijah Meeks, “Comprehending the Digital Humanities”
- Matthew L. Jockers, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History, Ch.9 (“Influence”)
- Ted Underwood, “Visualizing topic models”
- Explore:
- Two Approaches to Building Network Graphs Online:
- Visual Correspondence (try data visualizations on one or more collections, choosing “Network” or “Force-directed Network” as the graph type)
- The Chymistry of Isaac Newton Project
- Evaluating Network Visualizations:
- Two Approaches to Building Network Graphs Online:
- Lab: Network Visualization
- Writing Assignment 2: First draft due before class
Thursday: Different Approaches to Plot Analysis
- Read:
- Franco Moretti, “Network Theory, Plot Analysis”
- Eric Hoyt, et al., “Visualizing and Analyzing the Hollywood Screenplay with ScripThreads”
- Matthew Jockers, “A Novel Method for Detecting Plot,” “Revealing Sentiment and Plot Arcs with the Syuzhet Package,” and “The Rest of the Story” (the second post reveals more technical details but is optional. But make sure you watch the embedded 4-minute video of Kurt Vonnegut in the first blog post.)
- Explore:
- Lab:
Week 10 (Oct 27, 29):
Tuesday: Writing Workshop: Revising an Essay
Thursday: Gephi Practice Session
Week 11 (Nov 3, 5):
Tuesday: Project 3 (Network Visualization) Tutorial
Thursday: Project 3 (Network Visualization) Presentations
- Start working on Writing Assignment 3
Module IV. Understanding Spatial Patterns
Week 12 (Nov 10, 12):
Tuesday: Understanding Networks in Space
- Read: Spatially Embedded Networks
- Sindbæk, Søren Michael, “The Small World of the Vikings: Networks in Early Medieval Communication and Exchange,” Norwegian Archaeological Review, 40:1 (2007): 59-74
- Explore:
- “Voltaire and the Enlightenment” project in Mapping the Republic of Letters (make sure to check out its “Visualization” page)
- Visual Correspondence (try data visualizations on one or more collections, choosing “Map,” “Faceted Map,” “Time Map,” or “Time Map with Slider” as the graph type)
- Lab: Mapping Networks in the Geographical Space
Thursday: Spatial Analysis
- Read: Conceptions of Space & Spatial Analysis
- Edward L. Ayers, “Mapping Time,” GeoHumanities, pp.215-25.
- Franco Moretti, “Maps,” in Graphs, Maps, Trees, pp.35-66.
- Explore:
- Lab: (Animated) Spatial Visualization
Week 13 (Nov 17, 19):
Tuesday: Visualizing Spatial Data
- Read:
- John Theibault, “ Visualizations and Historical Arguments,” in Writing History in the Digital Age (final 2013 version)
- Mark Monmonier, “Lying with Maps,” Statistical Science 20.3(2005): 215-22.
- Explore:
- Lab: Pairing Maps with Statistics
- Writing Assignment 3: First Draft due before noon
Thursday: The Politics of Technology, or the Concerns of Digital Humanists
- Read:
- Tim Hitchcock, “Academic History Writing and the Headache of Big Data”
- David J. Bodenhamer, “The Potential of Spatial Humanities,” in The Spatial Humanities, pp.14-29
- Explore: Participatory DH
- Lab: Tell an Interactive Data Story
- Tableau Public (Data Stories)
Week 14 (Nov 24, 26): Thanksgiving Break – No Class
Week 15 (Dec 1, 3):
Tuesday: Project 4 (Spatial Visualization) Tutorial
- Writing Assignment 3: Second Draft due before noon
Thursday: Project 4 (Spatial Visualization) Presentations
Developing a Final Project
Week 16 (Dec 8):
Tuesday: Concluding Discussions & Final Project Development
- Writing Assignment 3: Final Draft due before noon