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Introduction to Digital Humanities

DH101, Fall 2017

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    • 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
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    • Working in Public
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    • 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: Spencer

December 3, 2017 Spencer

The Superficial Hollywood Fountain (Spencer Chau)

This week, I’ve decided to create a 3D model of the slightly altered Hollywood Sign and a fountain. Click here

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November 19, 2017 Spencer

“The New Me” Network (Spencer Chau)

This week I’ve created a network graph for a short fiction “The New Me”, a story told by a first-person

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November 10, 2017 Spencer

Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto: A Digital Monument (Spencer Chau)

For this week, I’ve decided to explore Exploring the Vilnius Ghetto: A Digital Monument, which is a digital humanities mapping

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November 5, 2017 Spencer

My Website (Involves Peanut Butter & Doggos)

Hey guys! I’ve tried uploading my site to the serve but I failed 🙁 So here’s two screenshots to my

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October 30, 2017 Spencer

Open Refine: “Library Book Acquisition in Osage, Iowa” (Spencer Chau)

OpenRefine is an extremely helpful tool to better analyze datasets, especially when the dataset is huge in quantity, imperfect or

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October 22, 2017 Spencer

Crime Data from 2010 to Present (Spencer Chau)

As someone who moves across cities recent years, crime data visualization is a helpful resource for me to understand the

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October 15, 2017 Spencer

Collection of Heavy Metal Material (Spencer Chau)

As a musician myself, I am interested at looking into the history of different music genre, even for the ones

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October 8, 2017 Spencer

John Ashbery’s Nest (Spencer Chau)

  John Ashbery’s Nest‘s unique welcoming to the website is extremely intriguing as the site uses a smooth 3D zoom-in

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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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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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