Schedule S24
UNIT 1: DATA IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Week 1 Digital Arts and Humanities
| Time/Date | Reading/Material | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 23 Jan (3:35PM-6:15PM) | -Mattingly, “How to Get Started in Digital Humanities in 2023, and Why” (requires account), Medium, 17 January 2023 -Berry, What are the Digital Humanities?, British Academy, 13 February 2019 -Rogers, So You want to make a DH Website |
Lab on Web Publishing Alternatives: Github Pages, Google Sites, Hypotheses, NYU Web Hosting (WordPress), Notion, Vercel, NYU WP, Humanities Commons, HSS Commons |
| Thurs, 25 Jan (3:35PM-4:50PM) | -Drucker, ch 1, 1-18. -Schneider, “Why Digital Humanities”, Politics East Asia, 4 November 2013. -Sneha, “Mapping Digital Humanities in India” CIS Bangalore, 2016, 5-14, 52-57. |
-discussion and practice with Markdown -a Markdown cheatsheet |
Week 2 Making and Project-Based Thinking
| Time/Date | Reading/Material | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 30 January 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Berry/Fagerjord, “On the Way to Computational Thinking,” Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in the Digital Age, 2017, 40-59. |
Lab: -Learning about OCR -Working on our own blogs / pushing material to them using GitHub Desktop |
| Thurs, 1 February 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Posner, “How Did They Make That” 2014. -Chachra, “Why I am Not a Maker” The Atlantic, 23 January 2015. Full text here -The Making and Knowing Project -On Phronesis |
-discussion -Introduction to RStudio and Posit.cloud (formerly RStudio.cloud) -set up of digital literacy narrative with GPT |
Digital Literacy Narrative Instructions here Due Date 8 Feb, 10% final grade (in phases over the semester).
Week 3 Data and Metadata in the Arts and Humanities 1
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 6 February 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Broman/Woo “Data Organization in Spreadsheets”, The American Statistician, 24 April 2018. -Drucker, ch 2 (19-33) & ch 4 (52-69) -Local Origins (Loukissas) |
-Lab slides in drive -Notebook: Cultural Heritage By the Numbers (posit.cloud) |
| Thurs, 8 February 3:35PM-4:50PM | Continuation of the Notebooks -De Bastion/Mukku, Data and the Global South, 2020. -Singapore Memories Project / Trove / Europeana / Google Arts & Culture |
discussion of Geopolitics of Cultural Heritage (Grincheva/Stainforth, in drive) |
ASSIGNMENT 1 here Due Date 22 Feb, 20% final grade.
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: It’s Love Data week! Due Date 19 Feb, 1-2 points on Assignment 1, to be written as a post. Guidelines on writing extra credit posts can be found here.
UNIT 2: TEXTUAL
Week 4 Textual Bodies
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 13 February 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Drucker, ch 7, 110-120. -Clark et al, “What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus” Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2022 -Distant Reading: A Conversation with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu |
Lab: Text Mining: Easy to Less Easy -Google NGram Viewer -Bookworm -Voyant -AntConc (download in advance of session) -RStudio notebook for Project Gutenberg wordcloud |
| Thurs, 15 February 3:35PM-4:50PM (virtual) | -Hardfork, Generative AI is here : who should control it? (podcast) -From The Page, Experiments Using ChatGPT with Archival Collections -GPT for the Arts and Humanities -Barton, “Experiments Using chatGPT With Archival Collections |
“What is your favorite application of GPT in the world of the humanities?” - a Google Space contribution |
Week 5 Text as Data
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 20 February 3:35PM-6:15PM (guest) | Generative Text and Sufi aesthetic principles -“The Art of the Sufis” (Met Museum) -“Philosophy of Sufi Impact on the Features of Design” (Anees/Mustafa) |
virtual exercise with share out to Google space |
| Thurs, 22 February 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Drucker, ch 6, 86-109. |
-Notebook: -AntConc (download in advance of session) -Deconstructing the Word Cloud -Voyant Tools and documentation |
ASSIGNMENT 2: Exploring Textual Data from a Custom Corpus. Instructions Due 21 March, 20% final grade.
UNIT 3: SPATIAL
Week 6 Spatial Horizons
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 27 Feb 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Drucker, ch 8, 130-150 |
Exploring Spatial Projects -“A Place for Plant Data” (Loukissas) -“Mapping” (Wilson, in drive) |
| Thurs, 29 Feb 3:35PM-4:50PM | -Brunn / Lodge Mapping Across Academia (in drive, pick one chapter and find a few key points) |
-Mapping UFO dataset from Kaggle -Kepler |
Digital Literacy Narrative Revision #1 : instructions here, Due Date 6 March 2024, 5% final grade.
Week 7 Map Visualization
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 5 March 3:35PM-6:15PM | -Exploring Spatial Projects -automatic geocoding and chatGPT |
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| Thurs, 7 March 3:35PM-4:50PM (virtual class) | -Krupar, “Map Power and Map Methodologies for Social Justice”, Georgetown Agenda Journal of International Affairs 16.2(2015): 91-101. -Exploring Humanitarian OSM |
A Google space contribution. Drop your favorite point from Krupar’s article about how maps can address questions of social justice (in about 100 words) |
No class 8-20 March. Have a great break!
If you can find it, watch the German Netflix mini series, The Billion Dollar Code over the break.
Week 8 More Spatial
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Thurs, 21 March 3:35PM-4:50PM | more spatial content and midterm course recap | discussion |
ASSIGNMENT 3: Using chatGPT to “wrangle” data and build a spatial dataset. Instructions Due 12 April, 20% final grade.
UNIT 4: IMAGE
Week 9 Image Collections
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 26 March | -Vox, “Why I am Obsessed With these Cheap Paintings of Paris” -Drimmer, “How AI is Hijacking Art History” |
In class exploration: -WCMA digital project -Selfie City -Photogrammar -MoMA photography |
| Thurs, 28 March | -Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechnical Reproduction” The Conversation, 1 Nov 2021. -“The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” -Fuchsgruber, “Dead End or Way Out?: Generating Critical Information about Painting Collections Using AI” |
-Your Instagram Palette -MultiColorEngine for 20 million images -ColorPicker |
Week 10 Computational Analysis of Images
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 2 April | Download Orange Data Mining -Looking for Patterns in Image Collections with IMJ |
Lab: -“How We Teach Computers to Understand Pictures” (Li) -Learning about Orange Data Mining -Clustering Monet and Manet (Orange) -Clustering of Image Datasets with Orange using different datasets (William Wegman portraits, Arabic magazine covers, manga photos, Ramadan images) |
| Thurs, 4 April | Browse the book: Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images | -discussion of the article & different forms of audio visual DH -Classification of Image Datasets with Orange (using faces dataset) -towards build a dataset of your own with 5 “similar” images in 5 folders |
Week 11 EID
EID! This entire week has been declared Eid (8-14 April) by the government on 2 April.
Week 12 More than Images and the “Unproject”
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 16 April | Continuing with Images | Introduction to Assignment 4 |
| Thurs, 16 April | Presentation of the Unproject | Storyboarding |
COLLABORATION AND OPEN, SOCIAL SCHOLARSHIP
Week 13 Collaboration in DAAH
WORK ON REMAINING ASSIGNMENTS & UNPROJECT
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 23 April | Image classification -POSTPONED Collaboration in DAAH scholarship -“Collaborations in the Digital Humanities - Persisting Silences” -Another kind of computer vision: HTR, 5-7pm |
-attending a real-live collaborative scholarship event, the NYU Abu Dhabi HTR working group, dinner included! |
| Thurs, 25 April | -Presentation of Unproject -Choosing our image corpora |
Assignment 4 |
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: It’s the Gulf History Transcribe-a-thon Due Date POSTPONED, 1-2 points on Assignment 3 or 4, to be written as a post. Guidelines on writing extra credit posts can be found here.
Digital Literacy Narrative Revision #2 : instructions here, Due Date 2 May 2024, 5% final grade.
Week 14 Lab Work
Work on Remaining Assignments and Unproject
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 30 April | lab | |
| Thurs, 2 May | lab |
Week 15 Wrap up and Unprojects
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 7 May | none | in-class presentations of our “unprojects” |
| Thurs, 9 May | none | wrap up |
Final portfolio : instructions here, Due Date 10 May, 11:59pm, 20% final grade.