Category: #BUDSC16
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Using Jupyter Notebooks to Build Code Literacy and Introduce Digital Humanities
Matthew Lavin (University of Pittsburgh) Anyone who has tried to learn a programming language can attest to the fact that working with code requires a way of thinking that many if not most people are not used to. If I miss a comma in Microsoft Word, my document will still print. If I forget the…
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Digital Humanities Summer Scholars: A Model for Undergraduate Engagement with DH
Sarah Morris, Tawfiq Alhamedi, Caroline Nawrocki, and Mila Temnyalova (Lafayette College) In an effort to directly engage undergraduates in the digital humanities, Skillman Library, at Lafayette College, offers a competitive, intensive summer research internship for students interested in digital scholarship. During this six-week program, students create digital research projects of their own, engaging with digital…
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Inside/Outside the Binary: Teaching the Politics of Data
Jacob Alden Sargent and Christopher Gilman (Occidental College) At Occidental, we are experimenting with the integration of quantitative reasoning into courses outside of STEM. Students, often without prompting or explicit guidance from faculty, are conducting online surveys, generating data visualizations, and downloading large public data sets in their own research. Given that big data is…