June 12 – 16, 2023
Blog Post
Due Friday, June 16:
Draft a few paragraphs of text for the front page of your site. This should be an overview of your topic and include background leading up to your research question(s). Think of this as a more academic piece of writing in which you should cite outside sources.
Monday, June 12
Homework: Evaluate a Mapping Project
Due Thursday, June 15:
Pick a project from one of the following sources and analyze the project using our evaluation criteria.
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Reading: Building a Thoreau Timeline
- TimelineJS
- StoryMapJS
- Datawrapper
- Open time for help downloading Tableau Public
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time
4:30 PM, Rooke Auditorium (Optional)
- Undergraduate Research Talk: Making Sense of Data
Brian King (Computer Science), Matt Bailey (Business Administration/Analytics & Operations Management) and Peter Brooksbank (Mathematics)
Snacks available at 4:00pm
Tuesday, June 13
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Tableau Workshop with Doug LeBlanc (Data Analytics Engineer)
- Download the Superstore sample data for Tableau
- Reading: Hans Rosling’s TED Talk “The best stats you’ve ever seen“
- Reading: Data + Design: A simple introduction to preparing and visualizing information, “What not to do”
- Optional reading: Tableau guide: Which chart or graph is right for you
- Optional reading: The Data Visualization Catalogue
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Independent work time
4:30 PM, Holmes Hall Auditorium (Optional)
- Undergraduate Research Talk: Considering Grad School
Faculty and Staff Panel
Snacks available at 4:00pm
6:30 PM, Humanities Center Great Room (Optional)
- Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (HASS) Summer Research Dinner – free pizza and salad, plus a brief activity.
Wednesday, June 14
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Tableau Workshop with Doug LeBlanc (Data Analytics Engineer)
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
- Independent work time
3:30 PM, Rooke Pavilion (Optional)
- Ice cream social for undergraduate research
Thursday, June 15
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 012 (Digital Lab)
- ArcGIS Workshop with Janine Glathar (Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Specialist for GIS and Spatial Thinking)
- Janine’s Shared Folder for ArcGIS Materials
- Reading: Basics of Mapping for the Digital Humanities
- Reading: Humanizing Maps: An Interview with Johanna Drucker
- Optional reading: Wiseman, Andrew. “When Maps Lie.”
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Independent work time
- Request a Scalar registration key
- Visit from Jill’s dog Odin at 3 PM (meet outside of the Humanities Center)
Friday, June 16
Homework: Pre-wireframing for sites
Due Tuesday, June 20:
Create a list of all of the pages and/or elements that you would like to include on your final project site (At least 5, preferably more). For example, for a project about where to find hiking trails, my list might contain:
- About this site
- A brief history of hiking as a sport/pastime
- A map of parks nearby
- A map of one park with all of the hiking trails mapped out by difficulty
- A visualization of trail difficulty by elevation (are steep hikes more difficult?)
- And more!
Some of these elements might be on the same page, and some might be their own page – we’ll work on organizing the list and thinking about your sites on Tuesday.
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- ArcGIS Workshop with Janine Glathar (Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Specialist for GIS and Spatial Thinking)
- Discuss GIS projects found and evaluated for homework
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- 5-minute check-ins