Mackenzie Brooks
Assistant Professor & Digital Humanities Librarian at Washington and Lee University
Unit 2 / Day 2
DH 102: Data in the Humanities
October 18, 2016
Prof. Mackenzie Brooks
Cool data stuff:
Agenda:
- Unit 1 feedback
- Project/methodology review
- Intro to structured data
- Intro to Unit 2 data
Unit 1 feedback:
- Survey says: don't stress - dive in
- But also, experiment and read up on tool/method
For next time:
- Documentation should be more about the steps in the process, less of a first-person narrative
- Explore website as medium
- Think more about the relevance/usefulness of your visualizations
- AND the gaps in your data
- More tools, different data
Methodology review:
Introducing structured data!
Unit 1 was about the "bag of words."
Unit 2 is about relationships.
| Name | Year | State |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew | 2019 | Georgia |
| Abby | 2020 | New Jersey |
| Sam | 2017 | North Carolina |
| Chris | 2020 | Georgia |
Tabular data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database
https://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/toolbox/knowmang/content/models/relational_model.htm
http://legacy.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/ContentStandard/version3.2/GCS3.2-guide.htm
SQL = Structured Query Language
SELECT column_name,column_name
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name operator value;
SELECT * FROM students
WHERE year='2020';SELECT * FROM students
WHERE year='2020'
OR year='2019';Data types:
- String/characters
- Integer
- Decimal
- Boolean (T/F)
- Date
- Time
.csv = comma separated value
.xlsx = Excel workbook
.tsv = tab separated value
.json = Javascript Object Notation
.xml = Extensible Markup Language
RDF = resource description framework
File formats:
Let's meet the data!
For Thursday:
- Watch the linked data video
- Review the Programming Historian lessons
- Install Open Refine
- Review the new data & accompanying materials
DH 102: Unit 2 Day 2
By Mackenzie Brooks
DH 102: Unit 2 Day 2
DH 102: Data in the Humanities // Prof. Mackenzie Brooks // 10/18/16
