Computational data analysis method literacy
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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
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)
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:
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
