⚡️ 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 🔬)
August 27 - Introducing Computing in the Humanities & Culture As Data August 29 - Programming and Processing
September 3 - Histories of Culture & Computing September 5 - Version & File Histories
September 10 - Digital Objects & Obsolescence September 12 - Markup & Markdown
September 17 - Data Feminism & Culture As Data September 19 - Servers & Web Standards
September 24 - Standardizing Culture & Data Archeology September 26 - Scripts & Types
October 1 - Classes & Comments October 3 - Projects & Proposals
October 8 - Documentation & Definitions October 10 - Scrape On & Off
October 15 - Curating vs. Cleaning October 17 - GETting Culture
October 22 - Arguments & Algorithms October 24 - Notes & Points
October 29 - Making A Point October 31 - Patterns & Outliers
November 5 - Modeling Culture No Class for Election Day November 7 - Structuring Data
November 12 - Algorithmic Failures November 14 - Augmentation & AI
November 19 - Reproducibility & Responsibility November 21 - Preservation & Publics
November 26 & 28 - Fall Break  
December 3 - I Dream of Data December 5 - Hauntings & Ghosts
December 10 - Future Horizons & Final Projects  

Assignment Schedule

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

Individual Assignments

Assignment Due Date (Subject to Change)
Initial Interest Survey (Link Available on Canvas) Due by Midnight CT on September 1
Init IS310 Homework Now due Due by Midnight CT on September 9. Though if you are joining late or have issues can extend to Midnight CT on September 11
Lost & Found in the Command Line Due by Midnight CT on September 11
Source & Style Due by Midnight CT on September 18
Doing it Live Due by Midnight CT on September 25
Scripting Python Foundations Homework (Optional But Recommended) Due Prior to Class on October 1
Command Line Data Curation Homework Due by Midnight CT on October 9
Fandom Wikis and Web Scraping Homework Due by Midnight CT on October 21
GETing Culture Across APIs Homework Due by Midnight CT on October 28
Exploring and Visualizing Culture Homework Due by Midnight CT on November 6

Group Assignments

Assignment Due Date (Subject to Change)
Mass Digitization & Digital Libraries Due In-Class September 10.
Critical Cultural Data Explorations Due In-Class September 24.
Proprietary & Perspectival Dataset Creation Due In-Class October 15.
Computing Cultural Data Due In-Class November 14.

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