Computational data analysis method literacy

This content is not yet complete. In the meantime, see these presentations:

1. Data analysis method literacy (pdf, gd)

2. Data analysis method literacy 2 (pdf, gd)

Reading assignment

Read this research article on the the civilizing process in London’s Old Bailey.

Reading assignment

• Language change, simulation: Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change + Utterance selection model of language change. Also note that you can experiment yourself with the model described in the first paper here.

• Twitter, linguistic analysis, geographical analysis: What a Nasty day: Exploring Mood-Weather Relationship from Twitter + Mapping Lexical Innovation on American Social Media

  A Biased Review of Biases in Twitter Studies on Political Collective Action

• Simulation, archaeology: Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley + Understanding Artificial Anasazi

• Geographic information, network analysis, archaeology: Community structure of copper supply networks in the prehistoric Balkans: An independent evaluation of the archaeological record from the 7th to the 4th millennium BC + Testing the Robustness of Local Network Metrics in Research on Archeological Local Transport Networks

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

• Network analysis: 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

• 3D/spatial analysis, archaeology: 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 recognition of woodcut prints: Image-matching technology applied to Fifteenth-century printed book illustration / Wormholes record species history in space and time

• Visual analysis, art history: A Quantitative Approach to Beauty. Perceived Attractiveness of Human Faces in World Painting / Against Digital Art History

• Assignments:

  • How to Use t-SNE Effectively

  • Visualizing K-means clustering (2)

  • Read on some small, actual work:

    • The presentation of the DHH15 key concepts of socialism group

    • The presentation of the DHH15 Finnair Blue Wings multimodality group

    • If you understand Finnish, the election questionnaire analysis and visualization