Working with & Visualizing Data
June 10-14
Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri
Resources of Interest
- Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
- Tools for Digital Scholarship
Monday
June 10, 2024
9:00 AM Check-in (DMCL)
9:30 AM Architectural Plans & Graphic Notation (Zoom; Min Lee)
- Reading: Picon, Antoine. “Nineteenth-century Urban Cartography and the Scientific Ideal: The Case of Paris.” Osiris 2nd series, Vol. 18, Science and the City (2023), pp. 135-149. Link to reading on OneDrive
10:30 AM Open Refine (Alice)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Finding and evaluating Non-Scholarly Sources (Laura Surtees)
2:45 PM Finding Datasets (Alyssa Pivirotto)
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
* Reminder: bring headphones to use for the project meeting tomorrow!
Tuesday
June 11, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:30 AM Data Design & Visualization (Alice)
11:00 AM Germantown Y Project Meeting (Zoom)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Textual Analysis with Voyant (Stella)
2:30 PM Visualization & Text Analysis Sandbox
- What types of visualizations work well with different datasets?
- What can text analysis and visualization tell you about your own writing habits?
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
Wednesday
June 12, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:15 AM Digital Exhibitions & Collections (Alice)
11:00 AM Personal sites and embedding resources
- Reviewing web publishing conventions: filenaming, git, file types, links, etc.
- How to embed timelines & other resources
- Time to work on sites
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Collection Builder Workshop
- Collection Builder tutorial: GitHub Walkthrough
3:00 PM Exhibitions & Collections Sandbox
- Work on developing a small exhibit using TimelineJS, Exhibit.so, or CollectionBuilder.
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
Thursday
June 13, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:30 AM Thinking About Webmaps
- What is a map? Whose perspective and stories does a map represent?
- What is a webmap? Explore OpenMaps Philadelphia and Mural Arts Philadelphia
- How might webmaps be used to help tell the story of Germantown and the YWCA?
10:00 AM Exploring Webmapping with GoogleMaps
- Intro to GoogleMaps: Programming Historian Tutorial (Stop at the GoogleEarth section!)
- Make your own map of Philadelphia that’s aligned with your interests (art museusms and public art; vegan restaurants; craft stores and yarn shops, etc.)
11:30 AM Discussion
- When building your map, what information did you find?
- Was there a specific story told that emerged when you created your map?
- What conclusions did you reach from mapping the data?
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Webmapping with Leaflet (Stella)
2:30 PM Webmapping Sandbox
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve tomorrow?
Friday
June 14, 2024
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:30 AM Mini-project Work
10:00 AM Demos
5 min: Present your mini-project (it doesn’t need to be finished or perfect!)
- Note one element that you are particularly proud of
- Note one “tricky” element that still needs some work (what feedback or assistance would be helpful?)
5 min: Basic feedback from the group
- Let the presenter know what’s exciting about their work
- Volunteer to help with something during the workshop session
11:00 AM Workshopping
- Work in small or large groups to troubleshoot the “tricky” elements from the demos
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Mini-project Work, 1-on-1 Meetings
4:30 PM Reflections & Weekly Forecast
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
- What questions do you still have / What will you do to improve next week?
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