Computational literacy
  • Computational literacy for the humanities and social sciences
  • Three approaches to computational methods
  • History of humanities computing
  • Data processing: fundamental concepts of programming for humanists and social scientists
  • Data processing: regular expressions
  • Data analysis: fundamental concepts of statistics
    • Understanding and describing groups
    • What is average?
    • Uncertainty in describing groups
    • What is a sensible group to describe?
    • Comparing groups
    • Understanding relationships
  • Digging into a method: topic modeling
  • Final project
  • Where to continue?
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    • Helsinki fall 2021
    • Helsinki fall 2020
    • Helsinki fall 2019
    • Helsinki fall 2018
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    • Data
    • Easy tools for acquiring, processing and exploring data
    • Computational data analysis method literacy
    • Open, reproducible research and publishing
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  • Timetable for fall 2018
  • Wednesday 31.10. — Introduction
  • Friday 2.11. — Different types of data, data quality, available open datasets
  • Wednesday 7.11. — Easy tools for processing and exploring data
  • Friday 9.11. — No lecture
  • Wednesday 14.11. — Clinic for support in the assignments
  • Friday 16.11. — No lecture
  • Wednesday 21.11. — Fundamental concepts of statistics
  • Friday 23.11. — Fundamental concepts of statistics / Computational data analysis literacy
  • Wednesday 28.11. — Computational data analysis literacy, part 2
  • Friday 30.11. — No lecture
  • Wednesday 5.12. — Computational data analysis literacy, part 3
  • Friday 7.12. — Open, reproducible research and publishing / Final project
  • Wednesday 12.12. — No lecture, remote support for final project
  • Friday 14.12. — No lecture, remote support for final project
  • Friday 21.12. — Deadline for returning final project

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Timetable for fall 2018

Wednesday 31.10. —

For 2.11.:

  1. Answer the course background

  2. Look over the . Select the project that interests you the most. Post a short message on the channel on the course Slack to introduce yourself and to describe why you chose those that project.

  3. Read up on . Be ready to discuss in groups on the next lecture.

Friday 2.11. —

(, )

  1. Answer the course background

  2. Look over the . Select the project that interests you the most. Post a short message on the channel on the course Slack to introduce yourself and to describe why you chose those that project.

  3. Read up on . Be ready to discuss in groups on the next lecture.

Assignments for 7.11.:

  1. Find a dataset that could be of interest to you in your final project. Post a message on on Slack giving a link to the dataset and a note on why you selected it.

  2. Read & as preparation for next week, learning to not trust visualisations blind.

Wednesday 7.11. —

(, )

  1. Find a dataset that could be of interest to you in your final project. Post a message on on Slack giving a link to the dataset and a note on why you selected it.

  2. Read & as preparation for next week, learning to not trust visualisations blind.

Two full weeks to do these, need to be done only by 21.11.:

  1. Data cleanup: complete the .

  2. Visualisation: Experiment with at least one of the following tools:

    • tabular data → chart visualisations: ​

    • tabular data → chart visualisations:

    • tabular data → chart visualisations: ​​

    • tabular data → ​interactive map/network/timeline/list/facet visualisations: ​

      • Palladio has . There are also multiple tutorials on using Palladio, for example , or which is particularly on network analysis.

    • tabular data → map(+timeline) visualisations: ​​

    • ​text →​ interactive explorative interface for linguistic study: ​

    • ​big, preselected collections of text → interface for linguistic study: / ​

    • If you're feeling explorative, feel free to also dig for more tools in .

    If you're short on inspiration, feel free to go through hands-on tutorial covering OpenRefine, RAW and Palladio.

    Afterwards, post a message on on Slack detailing:

    1. What is the tool good for?

    2. What kind of data do you need for the tool to be useful?

      1. What information does the data need to contain?

      2. What format does it have to be in?

    3. Your experience with the tool.

    If someone has already posted on the tool you tested, don't repeat them. Instead, add to what they've said in a thread. (also be prepared to discuss the tools in class)

  3. Programming: Go through the and complete the assignments there.

  4. Regular expressions: Read the section on and go through the assignments there.

  5. In preparation for the lecture on 21.11., read .

Friday 9.11. — No lecture

Wednesday 14.11. — Clinic for support in the assignments

Friday 16.11. — No lecture

  1. Visualisation: Experiment with at least one of the following tools:

    1. What is the tool good for?

    2. What kind of data do you need for the tool to be useful?

      1. What information does the data need to contain?

      2. What format does it have to be in?

    3. Your experience with the tool.

    If someone has already posted on the tool you tested, don't repeat them. Instead, add to what they've said in a thread. (also be prepared to discuss the tools in class)

In preparation for next Wednesday's (28.11.) lecture, select (at least) one of the following sets of paired articles based on your own interests:

Form a group with all the other people who selected the same articles. For class, prepare a presentation on them, detailing:

  1. How do the two articles relate to each other?

  2. Research questions - What are the humanities research questions? Do the projects also target computer science research questions? If so, what? What is the relationship between the CS and humanities research questions?

  3. Data - How has the data used been gathered? What are the data sources used? How has the data been processed? Is the data available for others to use?

  4. Methods - What methods do the projects apply? How do the methods support answering the research questions?

  5. Partners - What is the make-up of the projects? Which disciplines are represented by the participants?

  1. Read on some small, actual work:

  1. Read on some small, actual work:

Select (at least) one of the following sets of paired articles based on your own interests:

Form a group with all the other people who selected the same articles. For class, prepare a presentation on them, detailing:

  1. How do the two articles relate to each other?

  2. Research questions - What are the humanities research questions? Do the projects also target computer science research questions? If so, what? What is the relationship between the CS and humanities research questions?

  3. Data - How has the data used been gathered? What are the data sources used? How has the data been processed? Is the data available for others to use?

  4. Methods - What methods do the projects apply? How do the methods support answering the research questions?

  5. Partners - What is the make-up of the projects? Which disciplines are represented by the participants?

Friday 30.11. — No lecture

  1. Prepare to shortly (max 2 minutes) present your current idea for your final project on the lecture on

Wednesday 12.12. — No lecture, remote support for final project

Friday 14.12. — No lecture, remote support for final project

Wednesday 21.11. —

Data cleanup: complete the .

tabular data → chart visualisations: ​

tabular data → chart visualisations:

tabular data → chart visualisations: ​​

tabular data → ​interactive map/network/timeline/list/facet visualisations: ​

Palladio has . There are also multiple tutorials on using Palladio, for example , or which is particularly on network analysis.

tabular data → map(+timeline) visualisations: ​​

​text →​ interactive explorative interface for linguistic study: ​

​big, preselected collections of text → interface for linguistic study: / ​

If you're feeling explorative, feel free to also dig for more tools in .

If you're short on inspiration, feel free to go through hands-on tutorial covering OpenRefine, RAW and Palladio.

Afterwards, post a message on on Slack detailing:

Programming: Go through the and complete the assignments there.

Regular expressions: Read the section on and go through the assignments there.

In preparation for the lecture on 21.11., read .

language change, simulation: + . Also note that you can experiment yourself with the model described in the first paper .

twitter, sentiment analysis: +

simulation, archaeology: +

geographic information, network analysis, archaeology: +

history, text reuse detection: + (Interestingly, first article doesn't have affiliations. Digging thrhough, most people seem to be from this project)

network analysis: +

3D/spatial analysis, archaeology: +

Image recognition of woodcut prints: /

Friday 23.11. — /

Check out the site, and especially

The of the DHH15 key concepts of socialism group

The of the DHH15 Finnair Blue Wings multimodality group

If you understand Finnish, the

For 5.12., explore of and read the on topic modelling

Wednesday 28.11. — , part 2

Check out the site, and especially

The of the DHH15 key concepts of socialism group

The of the DHH15 Finnair Blue Wings multimodality group

If you understand Finnish, the

language change, simulation: + . Also note that you can experiment yourself with the model described in the first paper .

twitter, sentiment analysis: +

simulation, archaeology: +

geographic information, network analysis, archaeology: +

history, text reuse detection: + (Interestingly, first article doesn't have affiliations. Digging thrhough, most people seem to be from this project)

network analysis: +

3D/spatial analysis, archaeology: +

Image recognition of woodcut prints: /

Wednesday 5.12. — , part 3

Explore of and read the on topic modelling

Find a computational humanities research paper that interests you. Post a message on on Slack shortly describing why you picked the paper.

Friday 7.12. — /

Friday 21.12. — Deadline for returning

Fundamental concepts of statistics
OpenRefine tutorial
RAW
Voyager
Tableau
Palladio
help pages
this one
this one
Carto
Voyant tools
Korp
corpus.byu.edu
TAPoR
this
#tools
fundamental concepts of programming for humanists
regular expressions
this research article
Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change
Utterance selection model of language change
here
What a Nasty day: Exploring Mood-Weather Relationship from Twitter
A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter Studies on Political Collective Action
Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Understanding Artificial Anasazi
Exploring the dynamics of transport in the Dutch limes
Testing the Robustness of Local Network Metrics in Research on Archeological Local Transport Networks
Plundering Philosophers:Identifying Sources of the Encyclopédie
The Use and Abuse of the Digital Humanities in the History of Ideas: How to Study the Encyclopédie
Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach
Automated analysis of the US presidential elections using Big Data and network analysis
A Survey of Geometric Analysis in Cultural Heritage
A GIS-based viewshed analysis of Chacoan tower kivas in the US Southwest: were they for seeing or to be seen?
Image-matching technology applied to Fifteenth-century printed book illustration
Wormholes record species history in space and time
Fundamental concepts of statistics
Computational data analysis literacy
Explore bootstrapping
Explained Visually
PCA explained visually
presentation
presentation
election questionnaire analysis and visualisation
this topic model
CEEC
explanation
Computational data analysis literacy
Explore bootstrapping
Explained Visually
PCA explained visually
presentation
presentation
election questionnaire analysis and visualisation
Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change
Utterance selection model of language change
here
What a Nasty day: Exploring Mood-Weather Relationship from Twitter
A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter Studies on Political Collective Action
Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley
Understanding Artificial Anasazi
Exploring the dynamics of transport in the Dutch limes
Testing the Robustness of Local Network Metrics in Research on Archeological Local Transport Networks
Plundering Philosophers:Identifying Sources of the Encyclopédie
The Use and Abuse of the Digital Humanities in the History of Ideas: How to Study the Encyclopédie
Protestant Letter Networks in the Reign of Mary I: A Quantitative Approach
Automated analysis of the US presidential elections using Big Data and network analysis
A Survey of Geometric Analysis in Cultural Heritage
A GIS-based viewshed analysis of Chacoan tower kivas in the US Southwest: were they for seeing or to be seen?
Image-matching technology applied to Fifteenth-century printed book illustration
Wormholes record species history in space and time
Plundering philosophers
Twitter
3D archaeology
Computational data analysis literacy
this topic model
CEEC
explanation
#research
Open, reproducible research and publishing
Final project
final project
Introduction
questionnaire
#introductions
Different types of data, data quality, available open datasets
pdf
gd
questionnaire
#introductions
#datasets
Perception deception
Common visualization mistakes
Easy tools for processing and exploring data
pdf
gd
#datasets
Perception deception
Common visualization mistakes
OpenRefine tutorial
RAW
Voyager
Tableau
Palladio
help pages
this one
this one
Carto
Voyant tools
Korp
corpus.byu.edu
TAPoR
this
#tools
fundamental concepts of programming for humanists
regular expressions
this research article
final projects from last year
final projects from last year
the history of humanities computing
the history of humanities computing