Schedule S26
UNIT 1: DATA IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Week 1 Digital Arts and Humanities
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 20 Jan (3:20PM-6:00PM) | -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 -Data in the Humanities |
Introduction to course, expectations, syllabus |
| Thurs, 22 Jan (3:20PM-4:35PM) | -Sign up for Github and Github Education -Drucker, ch 1, 1-18. -Posner, Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction -Choose one of the links here to discuss Digital Humanities and AI |
-Discussion of Drucker, Posner and DH/AI -Slides: A few global examples of global communities doing digital arts and humanities [in Drive] |
Week 2 “On the Way to Computational Thinking”
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 27 January 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Review NotebookLM audio summary [in drive] -Berry/Fagerjord, “On the Way to Computational Thinking,” Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in the Digital Age, 2017, 40-59. [in Drive] -Slater, Distant Coding in the Digital Humanities, -Download GitHub Desktop -What is Markdown and Why Should we Use It? -Register your GitHub username and site name here |
Lab: -Working on building our course sites -pushing material to them using Github Desktop -discussion and practice with Markdown -a Markdown cheatsheet -Trying out agentic coding -Slides “Distant Coding” in Drive |
| Thurs, 29 January 3:20PM-4:35PM | -Drucker, ch 11, 192-210 -Posner, “How Did They Make That” 2014. -Chachra, “Why I am Not a Maker” The Atlantic, 23 January 2015. Full text here -The People Refusing to Use AI -Pros and Cons of GitHub Copilot -LLMs and practical knowledge: What is intelligence?, 2024, pp. 19-26. |
-discussion: comparing and contrasting computational thinking and distant coding -Connecting VSCode and Copilot -set up and prompting a digital literacy narrative in VSCode |
Digital Literacy Narrative Instructions here Due Date 3 Feb, total of the assignment 10% final grade (in phases over the semester). This portion is ungraded.
UNIT 2: TEXTUAL DATA
Week 3 Distant Reading
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 3 February 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Drucker, ch 7, 110-120 -Clark et al, “What’s Trending in the Chinese Google Books Corpus” Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, 2022 -Listen to Distant Reading: A Conversation with Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu |
-Lab: -Introduction to RStudio and Posit.cloud -Text Mining: Easy to Less Easy -Google NGram Viewer -Bookworm -Voyant -Using VSCode with agentic coding to extend basic text mining and visualization |
| Thurs, 5 February 3:20PM-4:35PM | -What is a Corpus? -Rockwell and Sinclair, “The Measured Words: How Computers Analyze Text”, 25-43 |
More hands on with different corpora |
ASSIGNMENT 1: Exploring Textual Data from a Custom Corpus. Instructions Due 28 Feb, 20% final grade.
Week 4 Computational Analysis of (Historical) Text
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 10 February 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Drucker, ch 3, 34-51. |
-RMarkdown notebook “The Grammar of Graphics, ch 2” of Humanities Data in R 2nd ed. |
| Thurs, 12 February 3:20PM-4:35PM | -experiment with notebook -go over Assignment 1 |
-continuing with Rmd Notebooks (Project Gutenberg Explorer and Colonial South Asian Fiction Explorer) |
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: It’s Love Data Week in NYC and in AD
Due Date: 25 Feb, 1-2 points on Assignment 1. Guidelines on writing extra credit posts can be found here.
Ramadan starts. We will have a shorter Tuesday class to accommodate to rest before Iftar.
Week 5
Instructor away at a conference. Work on Assignment 1 and Response 1.
EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: It’s Love Data Week in NYC and in AD
Due Date: 25 Feb, 1-2 points on Assignment 1. Guidelines on writing extra credit posts can be found here.
Week 6 Much Larger Textual Analysis - Historical Corpora and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Feb | -Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency with Project Gutenberg Science Fiction Texts -Handwritten Text Recognition Transkribus Webinar for Beginners -Create a free Transkribus account |
-Lab with 3d visualization of TF IDF -Hands on intro to Transkribus |
| 26 Feb | -What is humanities ground truth? |
- Mini lecture: “Digitization and Creating Our Own Textual Data” [slides in drive] -Correcting and Retraining the Machine |
UNIT 3: SPATIAL DATA
Week 7 The (Geo)spatial in the arts and humanities
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 24 February 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Drucker, ch 8, 130-150 -The Sultanate of Zanzibar -Zanzibar (Wikipedia) -Make an account at OpenStreetMap |
-Visit to Special Collections and Lab -Hands on with the UFO dataset (in Drive) and kepler |
| Thurs, 26 February 3:20PM-4:35PM | -Exploring Spatial Projects -“A Place for Plant Data” (Loukissas) -“Mapping” (Wilson, in drive) |
-discussion of structured data |
Digital Literacy Narrative Revision #1 : instructions here, Due Date 10 March, total 10% of final grade, this part being 5%.
Ramadan begins around here
Oral Exam week of Mar 2. Sign ups available here.
Week 7 Extracting and Visualizing Spatial Information from Sources
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 3 March 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Broman and Woo, “Data Organization in Spreadsheets”, 2018, 2-8 -Drucker, ch 6, 86-109 -“Why We Should Digitize Historical Newspapers”, “How Do we Digitize Historic Newspapers?”, |
-Lab: Share back about the sample spatial projects -LLMs, Information Extraction and Digitized Historical Documents -theme exploration across all the ZG issues |
| Thurs, 5 March 3:20PM-4:35PM | -“Thick Mapping” Hypercities, pp. 49-65. |
-Hands on - Finalize topics from the Zanzibar Gazette -presentation of Assignment 2 |
ASSIGNMENT 2: “Wrangle” data from a historical source, the Gazette of Zanzibar to build and visualize a spatial dataset. Instructions Due 15 April, 20% final grade.
Spring Break and Eid If you can find it, watch the German Netflix mini series, The Billion Dollar Code over the break. It’s all about spatial data!
Week 8 Humanitarian Mapping
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 24 March 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Krupar, Map Power and Map Methodologies for Social Justice -Spatial Microtasking and Humanitarian OSM |
-agentic coding of OSM/GeoNames street data and map making using Leaflet |
| Thurs, 26 March 3:20PM-4:35PM | -Explore some HotOSM projects | -Discussion and continuation of geospatial coding in VSCode |
Week 9 More Maps
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 31 March 3:20PM-6:00PM | ||
| Thurs, 2 April 3:20PM-4:35PM | -work on Assignment 2 |
-questions regarding Assignment 2 |
UNIT 4: IMAGE DATA
Week 10 Images as Data
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 7 April 3:20PM-6:00PM | -“How We Teach Computers to Understand Pictures” (Li) -Learning about Orange Data Mining -Clustering Monet and Manet -Drimmer, “How AI is Hijacking Art History” -Binkyte, “Distant Reading and Viewing: “Big Questions” in Digital Art History and Digital Literary Studies” |
In class exploration: -WCMA digital project -Selfie City -Photogrammar -Looking for Patterns in Image Collections with IMJ -Exploring Image Clustering with Orange |
| Thurs, 9 April 3:20PM-4:35PM | -Download Orange Data Mining -Lang and Ommer “Transforming Information Into Knowledge: How Computational Methods Reshape Art History” -Impett and Offert, “There is a Digital Art History” -Fuchsgruber, “Dead End or Way Out?: Generating Critical Information about Painting Collections Using AI” |
-Discussion of “Distant Viewing” |
Week 11 “Looking at and through the algorithm”
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 14 April 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Orange Data Mining day -Clustering vs classification |
Lab: -Clustering of Image Datasets with Orange using different datasets (William Wegman portraits, Arabic magazine covers, manga photos, Ramadan images) -Extension of Distant Viewing Using scripts from the Distant Viewing Lab and agentic coding |
| Thurs, 16 April 3:20PM-4:35PM | -Discussion of Lang and Ommer, Impett and Offert, Fuchsgruber -Exploring pre-assembled datasets with CLIP -DV Explorer 2.1-2.7 and 5.1-5.2 |
-Discussion of How to Build an Image Corpus -Journal of Open Humanities Data -Zenodo |
ASSIGNMENT 3: Constructing an Image Dataset and using Orange Data Mining, 2DCLIP and the DV Explorer to analyze it. Instructions Due 8 May, 20% final grade.
Week 12 Computer Vision and Historical Images
| Time/Date | Preparation | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 21 Apr 3:20PM-6:00PM | -Browse the book: Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images |
Lab: R Markdown Notebooks for Color, Object Detection and Face Detection |
| Thurs, 23 April 3:20PM-4:35PM | Continuing CV | -Discussion -Questions about Assignment 3 |
Digital Literacy Narrative Revision #2 : instructions here, Due Date 8 May 2024, 5% final grade.
UNIT 5: WRAP UP
Week 13 Lab Work
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 28 April | lab | |
| Thurs, 30 April | lab |
Week 14 Presentations
| Time/Date | Reading | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| Tues, 5 May | none | in-class individual presentations reflecting on what we learned |
| Thurs, 7 May | none | wrap up |