Introducing DH Analysis
Seminar and Workshop Framing
How can we analyze data in DH? What does it mean to count in DH, and what are the benefits and drawbacks of these methods?
Contextual Materials
- Callaway, Elizabeth, Jeffrey Turner, Heather Stone, and Adam Halstrom. “The Push and Pull of Digital Humanities: Topic Modeling the What Is Digital Humanities? Genre.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 014, no. 1 (March 20, 2020). https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/1/000450/000450.html
- Underwood, Ted. “Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text.” The Stone and the Shell (blog), June 4, 2015. https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/
- Rawson, Katie, and Trevor Muñoz. “Against Cleaning.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 279–92. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvg251hk.26.
- Cegłowski, Maciej. “Deep-Fried Data.” Idle Words, September 27, 2016. https://idlewords.com/talks/deep_fried_data.htm.
Applied Materials
- Skim Guiliano, Jennifer, and Laura Estill. “What Gets Categorized Counts: Controlled Vocabularies, Digital Affordances, and the International Digital Humanities Conference.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, January 17, 2023, fqac091. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac091.
- Skim Underwood, Ted. “Topic Modeling Made Just Simple Enough.” The Stone and the Shell (blog), April 7, 2012. https://tedunderwood.com/2012/04/07/topic-modeling-made-just-simple-enough/.
Curated Additional Materials (optional but recommended if familiar with assigned materials)
- Underwood, Ted. “How Not to Do Things with Words.” The Stone and the Shell (blog), August 25, 2012. https://tedunderwood.com/2012/08/25/how-not-to-do-things-with-words/.
- Rockwell, Geoffrey, and Stefan Sinclair. “The Swallow Flies Swiftly Through: An Analysis of Humanist (First Interlude).” In Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities. MIT Press, 2016. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7580317/?arnumber=7580317.
- Kleymann, Rabea, Andreas Niekler, and Manuel Burghardt. “Conceptual Forays: A Corpus-Based Study of ‘Theory’ in Digital Humanities Journals.” Journal of Cultural Analytics 7, no. 4 (December 19, 2022). https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.55507.
- Schmidt, Ben. “Sapping Attention: When You Have a MALLET, Everything Looks like a Nail.” Sapping Attention (blog), November 2, 2012. http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/11/when-you-have-mallet-everything-looks.html.
Workshop Assignments (to be completed prior to class)
Additional Resources
- James Baker and Ian Milligan, “Counting and mining research data with Unix,” Programming Historian 3 (2014), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0040.
- Heather Froehlich, “Corpus Analysis with Antconc,” Programming Historian 4 (2015), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0043.
- Shawn Graham, Scott Weingart, and Ian Milligan, “Getting Started with Topic Modeling and MALLET,” Programming Historian 1 (2012), https://doi.org/10.46430/phen0017.