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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: Sophia Ling

December 6, 2017 Sophia Ling

3D Model

To welcome the holiday season and also because as a college student I cannot afford my own real, lifesize one,

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November 20, 2017 Sophia Ling

Network Map: The Martians Claim Canada

For the blog post this week I read the short story The Martians Claim Canada by Margaret Atwood. This short

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November 13, 2017 Sophia Ling

Caribbean Cholera Map

This week I analyzed the 19th Century Caribbean Cholera TimeMap. This site contains an interactive map of the Caribbean and

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November 6, 2017 Sophia Ling

Website

A website about fruit puns.

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November 1, 2017 Sophia Ling

OpenRefine

This week we explored OpenRefine, a digital tool useful in cleaning up data. The importance of tools such as this

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October 23, 2017 Sophia Ling

Crime Data from 2010 to Present Ontology

The City of LA’s Crime Data from 2010 to Present draws information from crime reports of the Los Angeles Police

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October 13, 2017 Sophia Ling

Archival Collection: Account of the San Francisco earthquake and fire

The “Account of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, with ephemera from the aftermath: San Francisco, Calif., 1906” is an

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October 9, 2017 Sophia Ling

Reverse Engineering Robots Reading Vogue

“Robots Reading Vogue” is a digital humanities project marking the meeting point of data mining and fashion trends through the

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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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