⚡️ This schedule is subject to change depending on our collective progress this semester, so please treat this as a general guideline that is not set in stone. I will add assignments as we progress below, but you should generally expect to have both assigned materials and assignments each week.

Weekly Schedule

This overview gives a top level view of the topics for each of our meetings. You can either use the side navigation or click on a topic to jump to that section.

Tuesday Topics (Explorations 🔭) Thursday Topics (Experimentations 🔬)
January 16 - Introducing Computing in the Humanities January 18 - Programming and Processing
January 23 - Change over Time & Histories of Computing January 25 - Version and File Histories
January 30 - Histories of Power & Data February 01 - Markup and Markdown
February 06 - Power Hierarchies & Data Feminism February 08 - Scraped Off & Web Structures
February 13 - Culture as Data & Data Cultures February 15 - GETting Data
February 20 - Culture at Scale & Digital Collections February 22 - Structuring Data
February 27 - T(r)ending and Cleaning February 29 - Curate & Collect
March 05 - Making A Point March 07 - Making A Point, Again
March 12 & 14 - Spring Break  
March 19 - Patterns & Outliers - Class Canceled March 21 - Making A Point, Again Redux
March 26 - Patterns & Outliers - Redux March 28 - Making It Count
April 02 - Categories & Topics April 04 - Clusters & Classes
April 09 - Connecting The Dots April 11 - Nodes & Edges
April 16 - Preservation & Publications April 18 - Serving Looks
April 23 - Culture & Data Futures April 25 - Review & Reflect
April 30 - Demo Day & Final Projects  

Assignment Schedule

Assignments will be added throughout the semester depending on how much material we get through.

Assignment Due Date (Subject to Change)
Command Line Maze Assignments January 23
Command Line Maze Assignment 2 January 25
Solve the Command Line Assignment January 30
Web Technologies & Markup Homework Assignments February 6
Doing It Live: Hosting Your HTML Page Assignment February 8
Web Scraping Assignments February 15 (Optional Extension Until February 20)
APIs in the Wild Assignment February 29
Curate & Collect Homework March 7
Visualizing the Data Homework March 28
Making it Count Homework April 11
Experimenting with Cultural Networks Homework Optional Bonus Assignment - No Due Date

Updated: