{"id":63,"date":"2016-09-24T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2016-09-24T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T23:52:15","slug":"final-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/assignments\/final-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Description and Guidelines<\/h3>\n<p><em>View last year&#8217;s projects <a href=\"http:\/\/program.dh.ucla.edu\/projects\/2015\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For your final project, you will work with a group to create a web-based mini-site that explores and analyzes a dataset from multiple angles. Your mini-site must contain the following components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A full, <strong>annotated bibliography<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>narrative<\/strong> of about 2,000 words that describes your research and findings about the topic you\u2019ve been assigned. Included within the narrative should be:\n<ul>\n<li>At least five data visualizations that explore clearly defined humanities questions.<\/li>\n<li>At least two maps that display some property of your data related to a humanities question.<\/li>\n<li>At least one timeline that provides context for your topic.<\/li>\n<li>Appropriate, appealing, well-captioned and credited illustrations or photographs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A clear, full <strong>\u201cAbout\u201d page<\/strong> that contains the following information:\n<ul>\n<li>Full technical descriptions of the three levels of a DH project (sources, processing, presentation), along with full explanations of your reasoning for making the decisions you made at each level. You should cite relevant class readings to give context for these decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Short bios of each team member, along with a full accounting of who was responsible for what.<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledgments of the various people who helped you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>data critique<\/strong> that explains fully what information is included in your dataset, what information, events, or phenomena your dataset <em>can<\/em> illuminate, and what your dataset <em>cannot.<\/em> You should also give your account of the ideological effects of the way in which your sources have been divided into data (your dataset\u2019s ontology).<\/li>\n<li>Things you might want to include, just for fun (you don\u2019t have to, but why not?): video, audio, slideshows, whatever else you can think of!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>More on the Narrative<\/h3>\n<p>Your visualizations should be enfolded into the narrative using the \u201csplitting-a-sentence\u201d strategy described by Alberto Cairo (and derived from Javier Zarracina) in these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=457YQ-qn3l4&amp;list=PL0tDk-f4v1uh-Wfc0P9aKT4zR7j3ItHG6&amp;index=7\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FrFZoH_s9l8&amp;index=8&amp;list=PL0tDk-f4v1uh-Wfc0P9aKT4zR7j3ItHG6\">videos<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=457YQ-qn3l4&amp;list=PL0tDk-f4v1uh-Wfc0P9aKT4zR7j3ItHG6&amp;index=7\">part 7<\/a> gives context; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FrFZoH_s9l8&amp;index=8&amp;list=PL0tDk-f4v1uh-Wfc0P9aKT4zR7j3ItHG6\">part 8<\/a> describes the strategy itself). You may divide the narrative among various pages of your mini-site if you like.<\/p>\n<p>Like any satisfying narrative, yours should have a beginning, middle, and end, and a clear and coherent point. The writing need not be as formal as a typical academic paper but should be polished, grammatical, and contain no spelling or typographical errors. Imagine you\u2019re writing for an intelligent, educated audience which is not an expert on the topic at hand. Remember that your audience could be reading lots of different things on the Web; you need to give them reasons to keep reading your narrative! Your narrative should include full citations, using either the MLA or Chicago format (be consistent) and linking to sources wherever possible.<\/p>\n<h3>Hosting and archiving your final project<\/h3>\n<p>Every web resource needs to be hosted on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Server_(computing)\"><strong>server<\/strong><\/a> in order for other people to access it. Your group will\u00a0purchase its\u00a0own server space to host your project. We will use <a href=\"http:\/\/reclaimhosting.com\/\">Reclaim Hosting<\/a>, which costs $25 per year and includes your own URL. (If you have server\u00a0space of your own you\u2019d like to use, please speak to Prof. Posner or Francesca Albrezzi.) Each group will pool its money to purchase its own server space.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the class, you have the option of maintaining the server that hosts your project (meaning that you will continue to pay for the space) or letting the project expire. You\u2019ll need to decide as a group which you prefer.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you decide, your group will submit a copy of your site as HTML files so that your project will be permanently archived as a <strong>static site<\/strong> on UCLA\u2019s own servers. (Professor Posner will explain how to do this.) This means that while it will look like the site your group has built, you will not be able to update the archived\u00a0version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description and Guidelines View last year&#8217;s projects here. For your final project, you will work with a group to create a web-based mini-site that explores and analyzes a dataset from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/assignments\/final-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Final Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}