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Digital Humanities 201

UCLA | Winter 2019

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  • Final Project
    • Assignment
    • Datasets
    • Milestones
    • Rubric
    • Building your project site
    • Project presentation
  • Schedule
  • Policies
    • Grading
  • Tutorials & Guides
    • DH resources at UCLA
    • DH resources beyond UCLA
    • Finding data
    • Data Cleaning and Manipulation
      • Getting started with OpenRefine
      • Make a pivot table with Excel
    • Data visualization
      • Getting started with Tableau Public
      • Dataviz tools
      • Investigating p5
    • Text analysis
      • Messing around with the Topic Modeling Tool
      • Visualize your topic model
    • Web development
      • Build a webpage from scratch with HTML
      • Paint that page with CSS
      • CSS Part 2: Divs, classes, and IDs
      • Publish your website with GitHub pages
      • Make a fancy site with Mobirise
      • Alternatives to Mobirise
      • I already know HTML and CSS!
    • Mapping
      • Create a map with Tableau
      • Tableau 2: Basemaps, data layers, and geolocation
      • Mapping resources
    • Network Analysis
      • In-class network analysis links
      • Create a network graph with Cytoscape
      • Cytoscape: Working with attributes
      • Cytoscape: Working with selections
      • Get a unimodal network from a bimodal network
      • Publish your Cytoscape graph

Datasets

Please email me to obtain copies of these datasets. In most cases, I have easier-to-use versions of them than those available on the linked websites.

  1. Prisoner records from the Eastern State Penitentiary
  2. Contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art
  3. Photography at the Carnegie Museum of Art
  4. Architecture at the Carnegie Museum of Art
  5. Nixon White House recordings
  6. A database of Scottish witchcraft
  7. Artwork at the Williams College Museum of Art
  8. Nineteenth-century children’s books
  9. Cylinder recordings
  10. Photographs from science-fiction conventions
  11. A database of graphic novels
  12. Book acquisitions at the Osage, Iowa, public library in the early twentieth century
  13. What people had in their houses in the 1700s in rural Pennsylvania
  14. A database of archaeologists and classicists
  15. The letters of Charles Darwin
  16. Museum of Modern Art Acquisitions, 2006-2016
  17. Marvel Comic Books and Characters
  18. New York Philharmonic Performances
  19. Facebook ads purchased by a Russian “troll farm”

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Contact

Prof. Miriam Posner

mposner@humnet.ucla.edu

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