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Introduction to Digital Humanities

DH101, Fall 2017

  • Assignments
    • Reading Schedule
      • Key Terms
    • Weekly Blog Posts
    • Exams
      • Midterm
      • Final Exam
    • Final Project
      • Milestones
        • Annotated Bibliography Guidelines
        • Charter Guidelines
        • Data Critique Guidelines
        • Wireframes
      • Final Project Grading
  • Policies
    • Accessibility
    • FAQs
    • Working in Public
    • Grading
    • Contact and Office Hours
  • Tutorials & Guides
    • Francesca’s Lab
    • Research Skills
      • Finding Books and Articles
      • Emailing Someone You Don’t Know
      • Reading Scholarly Books and Articles
    • Data Manipulation
      • Get started with OpenRefine
      • Parts of your data
      • OpenRefine Resources
    • Data Visualization
      • Pick the right chart or graph for your data
      • Recommended Dataviz Tools
      • Summarize values with Excel
      • Make a diagram with RAW
      • This is fun, how do I do more of this?
    • Mapping
      • Carto Tutorial
      • Geocoding your data
      • Google Fusion Table basics
      • Recommended mapping tools
    • Web Publishing
      • Create a Blog Post on Our Course Website
      • Working with WordPress
      • HTML & CSS
        • Build a web page from scratch with HTML
        • Paint that page with CSS
        • CSS part 2: Divs, classes, and IDs
    • Network Analysis
    • Programming
      • Let’s play with p5!
    • General Help, Meetups, & Groups
    • Timeline Tools
  • Class Blog

Author: jameswwilson

December 4, 2017 jameswwilson

DH Final Blog Post – Fidget Spinner

For my final blog post, I made a 3D model of a Fidget Spinner with Wanda He. We had fun

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November 19, 2017 jameswwilson

Canadian Mushrooms!

Hello! This week, I read an interesting short story called The Martians. The story discussing the adventure of some mushroom-like

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November 10, 2017 jameswwilson

London’s Past Mapping

For this blog post I chose the Locating London’s Past map in an attempt to discover what changes can be

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November 5, 2017 jameswwilson

James’ Website!

My website can be found here! This was super fun. Enjoy the pic of my doggos.

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October 28, 2017 jameswwilson

On Using OpenRefine

As a Statistics major at UCLA, I typically use R programming to clean and manipulate my data before analysis. With

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October 22, 2017 jameswwilson

Listings for Active Businesses in Los Angeles

This week, I looked at the Los Angeles’ Active Businesses dataset, which looks at all of the active businesses currently

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October 14, 2017 jameswwilson

Archive: ACT UP and the AIDS Movement

AIDS is one of the most debilitating and shunned diseases in modern society. It was even more taboo before the

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October 8, 2017 jameswwilson

A Deep Dive into Walt Whitman

This week, I have chosen to reverse engineer the Walt Whitman archive, which discusses the work and life of Walt

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About This Class

UCLA, Fall 2017
Professor Miriam Posner
TAs: Francesca Albrezzi and Dustin O'Hara
Lectures: M, W, 2-3:15, Young 2200
Labs: Fridays, Rolfe 2118 and YRL 11630F
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  • Blog Post 1: Walt Whitman Archive Makeup
  • Blog Post 2: Heavy Metal Material MAKEUP
  • Blog Post: Network Map
  • Week 6: HTML
  • Week 3 Blog Post: Listing of Active Businesses

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Teachers: Please feel free to reuse any part of this syllabus you like! Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. If you use these materials in your class, I'd love it if you'd let me know! I'm trying to collect examples!
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