{"id":52,"date":"2019-01-03T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2022-01-05T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T21:07:11","slug":"assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/final-project\/assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Due Friday, March 1<\/em>8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your final project will combine data analysis and &#8220;traditional&#8221; humanities methodologies in order to levy an argument about a humanities research question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to do this, you&#8217;ll select a <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/final-project\/datasets\/\">dataset<\/a> and (with my help) learn to analyze, visualize, and ask questions of it. Your finished project will contain the following components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>At least three data visualizations.<\/li><li>At least one map.<\/li><li>A narrative of about 2,500 words that makes an argument and explicates the visualizations that support it.<\/li><li>An &#8220;About&#8221; page that thoroughly documents your sources, their processing, and their presentation.<\/li><li>A bibliography.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will be presented on a website that you build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since this will probably be an unfamiliar kind of assignment for you, I&#8217;ve prepared <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh201w22\/final-project\/milestones\/\">milestones<\/a> for you to &#8220;hit&#8221; throughout the quarter. As long as you make the milestones, you will complete your project on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some notes on the final project<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>While the components of the final project may initially seem intimidating, this class is structured in such a way that <strong>you will learn to execute each element of the project in sequence.<\/strong> The project milestones are carefully timed so that as long as you hit each milestone, you <em>will<\/em> complete the project on time, your own anxiety notwithstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practice, there is a fair amount of <strong>flexibility<\/strong> with the project guidelines. If another configuration of the project guidelines makes sense for you, I&#8217;m happy to discuss it, as long as the revised project meets the same learning goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you&#8217;re writing a final paper, the question of how to divide up your paper, while important and difficult, is at least confined to paragraphs and sentences. This project, however, because it&#8217;s presented on the web, will require you to <strong>make choices about how (and whether) to divide your argument into pages and sections.<\/strong> Choose the configuration of content that makes the most sense for what you&#8217;re trying to accomplish. As with every element of the project, I&#8217;m happy to talk it over with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few words on the &#8220;argument&#8221; part of the final project: Some students find that their projects work best when they make <strong>one argument, sustained over the various data visualizations and components of the project<\/strong>. However, many students find that it&#8217;s easier to make <strong>several different arguments about the same topic,<\/strong> each illustrated by a data visualization. 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