Culture at Scale & Digital Collections

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss the assigned materials
• Begin working on creating custom data exercise.
• Review homework from the Introduction to Web Scraping

Assigned Materials

• Loukissas, Yanni Alexander. “Collecting Infrastructures.” In All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society. The MIT Press, 2019. (Available in Canvas)
• Walsh, Melanie. “Where Is All the Book Data?” Public Books, October 4, 2022. https://www.publicbooks.org/where-is-all-the-book-data/.
• McNulty, Tess. “What’s on Top of TikTok?” Public Books, November 8, 2023. https://www.publicbooks.org/whats-on-top-of-tiktok/.

Additional Materials

Assignments

• Complete the Web Scraping Assignments