Patterns & Outliers Redux

In-Class Agenda

• Discuss updates to peer review assignment
• Discuss the assigned materials
• Work on in-class exercise exploring projects that focus on data analysis of culture

Assigned Materials

• Underwood, Ted. “Seven Ways Humanists Are Using Computers to Understand Text.” The Stone and the Shell, June 4, 2015. https://tedunderwood.com/2015/06/04/seven-ways-humanists-are-using-computers-to-understand-text/.
• Underwood, Ted. “Can Language Models Predict the next Twist in a Story?” The Stone and the Shell, January 5, 2024. https://tedunderwood.com/2024/01/05/can-language-models-predict-the-next-twist-in-a-story/.
• Schmidt, Benjamin M. “Do Digital Humanists Need to Understand Algorithms?” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 546–55. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1cn6thb.51.

Additional Materials

• Erin Davis “What physical traits are most tied to gender in literature? Eye roll: Women are all soft thighs and red lips.” The Pudding July 2020 https://pudding.cool/2020/07/gendered-descriptions/ and https://pudding.cool/process/pitching-gendered-descriptions/
• Shirley Wu “An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton” The Pudding https://pudding.cool/2017/03/hamilton/index.html
• Scott B. Weingart “Argument Clinic” July 26, 2017 https://scottbot.net/argument-clinic/
• Shaping Ideas into Data Stories [Speaker Series w/ Amber Thomas from The Pudding], 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Awc4HxDK0.
• Underwood, Ted. “Wordcounts Are Amazing.” The Stone and the Shell (blog), February 20, 2013. https://tedunderwood.com/2013/02/20/wordcounts-are-amazing/.