Working with & Visualizing Data
June 1-5, 2026
Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri
Second week tasks
- Complete mini-project (Fri 6/5): a prototype of a digital scholarship project or feature for PTA website
- Complete workshop activities and share outputs
- Daily log entries
- Brainstorm ideas for data visualizations and website features (Wed 6/3)
Monday
June 1, 2026
9:00 AM Check-in (DMCL)
9:30 AM Data Cleaning with OpenRefine (Alice)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Data Visualization (Alyssa Pivirotto)
- Slides shared on Slack channel
2:30 PM Exploring PTA data
- Create 1-2 visualizations
- Brainstorm mini-project ideas
Humanities Data resources
- Readings
- Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein.
- “Data Humanism: A Manifesto”, Giorgia Lupi (originally published in Print Mag, 2017).
- Projects
- Other resources
- Hands-on Data Visualization, Jack Dougherty & Ilya Ilyankou, “Introduction” and “1. Choose Tools to Tell Your Story”
- Data Art Slides, Fall 2025
- Responsible Datasets in Context
4:30 PM Reflections
- Post to your log:
- What went well today?
- What was challenging?
- Include a data visualization you made
- You can also reflect on Saturday’s screening
Tuesday
June 2, 2026
9:00 AM Check-In (Tessa)
9:30 AM Computer Vision Workshop (Alyssa)
- Slides: shared via Slack
- Jupyter Notebook: Distant_Viewing_Tutorial_1
Critical AI Readings
- “Generative AI exists because of the transformer”, Madhumita Murgia and the Financial Times Visual Storytelling Team. Financial Times, Sept. 12, 2023.
- Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Yale University Press, 2022. Tripod link: Atlas of AI
- “Editor’s introduction: Humanities in the Loop”, Lauren Goodlad, Critical AI 2023.
- “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models be Too Big?”, Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, et al. (FAccT 2021)
Computer Vision
- What types of visualizations work well with different datasets?
- How can we use computer vision to explore and enhance our data?
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Critical AI Workshop (Alice)
- Discussion & transformer reading
2:30 PM Critical AI Sandbox
- Read at least one of the three critical AI readings (Crawford, Goodlad, or Bender)
- Experiment with using GPT (either Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot in VS Code)
- Save your chatbot history
- Reflect on your experiences
- Return to your mini-projects: create a task list and post it to the blog
4:30 PM Reflections
- What did you do with your AI sandboxing time? How did it go?
- Share any thoughts and reflections on today’s readings or workshops.
Wednesday
June 3, 2026
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
9:15 AM Digital Exhibitions + CollectionBuilder (Alice)
- Digital Exhibitions Workshop Slides
- Collection Builder tutorial: GitHub Walkthrough
11:30 AM Lunch Break early for Staff Picnic
1:00 PM Paul Thomas Annotated Project Meeting
- Full team introductions
- Agenda: discuss summer priorities and mini-project ideas
2:00 PM Exhibitions & Collections Sandbox
- Work on developing a media feature or visual essay with Exhibit.so, Juxtapose js or Juncture
- Build a mini-exhibit using CollectionBuilder.
- Embed it in your blog or personal website using an iframe element
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
Thursday
June 4, 2026
9:00 AM Check-In (DMCL)
- Sign up for Domain of One’s Own: digital.brynmawr.edu
10:00 AM Web Mapping and GIS Tools (Tessa Eisen)
- Slides: Web Mapping: Intro to GIS, AllMaps, and Leaflet
- Resources on repo: dssf-syll/files/mapping
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Webmapping Sandbox
2:30 PM Work on Mini-projects
- Data Essay GitHub Template: data-essay
- Examples in the wild
- Aura Walmer, Data Sonification of the Total Solar Eclipse
- Russell Samora and Shelly Tan, Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise: An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
- Student work
- Nadav Gilad-Muth Butterflies in Delaware County
- Danna Zhang The Investiture Analyzed
4:30 PM Reflections
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
Friday
June 5, 2026
9:00 AM Mini-project work
- Optional: work in groups to review, test, and troubleshoot your mini-projects
9:30 AM 1-on-1 check-ins
- 9:30 - TBD
- 10:00 - TBD
- 10:30 - TBD
- 11:00 - TBD
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Mini-project Work
2:00 PM Demo Mini-projects (full team)
- What have you done so far? Where are you going with it?
- How could it be expanded for a larger website feature
4:30 PM Reflections & Weekly Forecast
- What went well?
- What was challenging?
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