Schedule

Unit 1: Introductions

Thursday, Aug. 20 | Welcome – Syllabus, Goals, etc. 

Homework: Due Tuesday, August 25

 

Tuesday, Aug. 25 | What is DH? 

Thursday, Aug. 27 | Lab 1 – WordPress

Homework: Due Tuesday Sept. 1 by 11am

 

Unit 2: Digital Presences

Question: What difference does the interface make?

Tuesday, Sept. 1 | Argument, Narrative, Platform

Thursday, Sept. 3 | Lab 2 – Leveraging the web

Homework: Due Tuesday, September 8 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 2
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Tuesday, Sept 8 | Accessibility, Ability, and the Web

Thursday, Sept. 10 | Lab 3 – Accessibility

Guest Presentation: Melissa Green, CIT/OIT

Homework: Due Tuesday, September 15 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 3
  • Prepare your Review presentations
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Tuesday, Sept. 15 | Lab 4 – Data, Tidy Data

Thursday, Sept. 17 | Review of DH Projects 

In class presentations

Homework: Due Tuesday, September 22 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 4
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Unit 3: Data

Question: What counts as data for the study of religion? What can and cannot be captured as data?

Tuesday, Sept. 22 | What are Data?

Thursday, Sept. 24 | Lab 5 – Finding Data

Kevin Walker: Data for the Study of Religion

Homework: Due Tuesday, September 29 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 5
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Tuesday, Sept. 29 | Data Ethics

Thursday, Oct. 1 | Lab 6 –  Assessing data 

Homework: Due Tuesday, October 6 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 6
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Tuesday, Oct. 6 | Creating Data

Thursday, Oct. 8 | Lab 7 – Let’s make some data

Not required reading, but Prepare Your Data for Tableau, chapters 4-5 is a resource for you for this session and the homework.

Homework: Due Tuesday, October 13 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 7
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Tuesday, Oct. 13 | Representing Data

Thursday, Oct. 15 | Lab 8 – Cleaning data (Tableau Prep)

  • Katie Rawson, Trevor Muñoz, “Against Cleaning”
  • Trina Chiasson, Dyanna Gregory, et.al., Data + Design, “Preparing Data” section, pp. 100-148 [in UA Box]

Not required reading, but Prepare Your Data for Tableau, chapters 6 – 10 is a resource for you for this session and the homework.

Homework: Due Tuesday, October 20 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 8
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Tuesday, Oct. 20 | Sharing Data

Thursday, Oct. 22 | Lab 9 – Graphs 

Homework: Due Tuesday, October 27 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 9
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Unit 4: Analysis

Question: How do different modes of analysis transform data? What do those transformations reveal and conceal?

Tuesday, Oct. 27 | Types of computational analysis

Thursday, Oct. 29 | Lab 10 – Graphing Part II Questions of Where

Homework: Due Tuesday, November 3 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 10

 

Tuesday, Nov. 3 | Election day! Vote!

If you are missing DH terribly, listen to N. Katherine Hayles’ interview with Alan Liu (you’ll have to select Liu from the list to get his interview.)

Thursday, Nov. 5 | Lab 11 – Questions of Where Questions of Words

Homework: Due Tuesday, November 10 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 11
  • Readings for Tuesday

Friday, Nov. 6 | Reflection 2 Due by Midnight

 

Tuesday, Nov. 10 | Logics of computational analysis

Read these in the order listed as the represent a conversation over time. Don’t worry about the particulars, but see if you can follow where claims and disagreements are.

Thursday, Nov. 12 | Lab 12 – Questions of Words Questions of Connections

Homework: Due Tuesday, November 17 @ 11am

  • Complete Lab 12
  • Readings for Tuesday

 

Unit 5: Synthesis

Tuesday, Nov. 17 | Why algorithms matter

Thursday, Nov. 19 | What sort of DH for the study of Religion?

 

Week 15 (Nov. 23-27) : Thanksgiving – No Classes

Tuesday, November 24 | Reflection 3 Due at Midnight

 

Week 16 (Nov. 30 – Dec. 4) : Dead Week (Virtual) | One-on-One Calls about projects