Assignments

Document Driven Research Methods Task 1 Welcome to Document-driven Research Methods!  Before we start analyzing some different research methods, we need to think about some fundamental questions. What is a document? What is document-driven research? What sort of methods might we use for documents? How can we select and explore our own document? Before you […]

Document Driven Research Methods Task 2 Hello everyone! As you’ll know from part 1, this is the part where we start to use documents online (in the form of little magazines) to develop some new research. Some of you have done this before, but to some of you looking at online archives like the Modernist […]

Discussion #7: Concept Map As you may appreciate from this module’s readings about Data Visualization, it is not a process to hurry but one that requires thoughtful construction. You may spend almost as much time creating visualizations for your work as you do drafting your research questions and selecting theoretical and methodological frameworks.  While you […]

Discussion #8: Orange Homework Orange (https://orange.biolab.si) is a data mining tool that features a process and analysis workflow using widgets. The “connect the widgets” approach allows users to analyze data without requiring programming skills or in-depth knowledge of statistics.  The goal of the Tweet Analysis Using Orange sessions will be to familiarize you with the […]

Visualization Assignment As part of learning different ways to conduct social media research, you will collect YouTube data, do some preliminary analysis, and write up a short description of your preliminary findings.  Step 1: Data Collection  Using the DigitalMethods.Net YouTube tools (https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/), collect data from one of the network modules.  Channel Network Module (https://tools.digitalmethods.net/netvizz/youtube/mod_channels_net.php) to […]

Discussion #9: Visualization Tools Before beginning your Discussion 9 assignment, make sure to review this video from Drs. Stephanie Vie and Jennifer deWinter, in which they introduce a variety of digital tools you can use for analyzing and visualizing the data you’ve collected.  After watching the video, explore your choice of 2-3 of the below […]

Twitter Bot Workshop The goal of this workshop is to create artistic, literary, educational, and/or activist Twitter bots based on your own creativity and projects based on historical and/or literary figures, texts, archives, Twitter data and other cultural heritage collections.  What is a bot? A bot is an autonomous software machine that acts as a […]