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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: jsarwate

November 20, 2017 jsarwate

Google Fusion: The Martians Claim Canada

The short story that I focused on was “The Martians Claim Canada” in which three Martians, by means of communicating

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November 13, 2017 jsarwate

Digital Harlem Digital Mapping Project

The digital mapping project that I am focusing on is the Digital Harlem mapping project which, according to the site, “presents information,

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November 6, 2017 jsarwate

Week 6: Website Blog

If you like pups and need some motivation, click here!

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November 1, 2017 jsarwate

OpenRefine

I enjoyed working with and experimenting with the application OpenRefine and learning about a new application with which to organize

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October 23, 2017 jsarwate

Week 3: ‘Every Animal Counts’ Audit Dataset

The Every Animal Counts audit released by City Controller Ron Galperin which reflects that “the Los Angeles’ Department of Animal Services is

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October 16, 2017 jsarwate

Week 2: The Collection of Heavy Metal Material

This week I focused on The Collection of Heavy Metal Material which is the “collection of published works, archival material, and ephemera

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October 9, 2017 jsarwate

Reverse Engineering “Chicana Diaspora”

I focused on reverse engineering the digital humanities project, Chicana Diaspora (http://scalar.usc.edu/works/chicanadiasporic/index), which led me to a webpage to first

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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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