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Week 1: January 10

Introduction to the course and to computational thinking

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Activity: Getting started with R and RStudio

  • Install R and RStudio on your machine
  • Videos to help you get started with R: these will walk you through sections 2.2 - 2.6 of Humanities Data in R, showing you how to work with R in the command line (Part 1), RStudio console (Part 2a), R scripts (Parts 2b and 3), and R Markdown notebooks (Parts 4a, 4b, and 4c).

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Week 2: January 17

Numbers - Working with quantitative data

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Activity: Working with numbers

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Week 3: January 24

Numbers - Data visualization

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Activity: Visualizing quantitative information

Due:

  • Notebook 1 (Numbers) 1/28

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Week 4: January 31

Maps - Discussion with Professor Greg Downs

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  • Susan Schulten, 2012, Slavery and the Origin of Statistical Cartography, pp. 119-155 in Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
  • Edward L. Ayers and Scott Nesbit, 2011, Seeing Emancipation: Scale and Freedom in the American South, Journal of the Civil War Era 1: 2-34.
  • Scott Nesbit, 2014, Visualizing Emancipation: Mapping the End of Slavery in the American Civil War, pp. 427-434 in Justyna Zander and Pieter J. Mosterman, eds., Computation for Humanity: Information Technology to Advance Society (New York: CRC Press).
  • Andrew Fialka, 2015, Controlled Chaos: Spatiotemporal Patterns within Missouri’s Irregular Civil War, pp. 43-70 in Joseph M. Beilein Jr. and Matthew C. Hulbert, eds., The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth (Lexington: Univerity of Kentucky Press).

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Activity: Mapping in R

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Week 5: February 7

Maps - Thinking spatially

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Activity: Making maps meaningful

Due:

  • Proposal for Final Project 2/8
  • Notebook 2 (Maps) 2/11

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Week 6: February 14

Texts - Algorithmic (“distant”) reading

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Activity: Manipulating texts

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Week 7: February 21

Texts - Topic modeling

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Activity: Analyzing texts

Due:

  • Notebook 3 (Texts) 2/25

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Week 8: Feburary 28

Networks - Thinking about connection

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Activity: Edges and nodes

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Week 9: March 7

Networks - Humanizing networks

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Activity: Visualizing networks

Due:

  • Notebook 4 (Networks) 3/11

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Week 10: March 14

Workshopping final papers

Due:

  • Final Project 3/21