Curating vs. Cleaning
In-Class Agenda
- Discuss and demo the remainder of the Advanced Web Scraping Section. You are welcome to read this material prior to class but it is not required.
- Discuss assigned readings
- Time permitting: Group presentations for the Proprietary & Perspectival Data Creation Assignment. These may get moved to the next class on Thursday if we run out of time.
Assigned Materials
- Rawson, Katie, and Trevor Muñoz. “Against Cleaning.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 279–92. University of Minnesota Press, 2019. https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/07154de9-4903-428e-9c61-7a92a6f22e51#ch23.
- Krause, Eunice. “Data Biographies: Getting to Know Your Data.” Global Investigative Journalism Network, March 27, 2017. https://gijn.org/2017/03/27/data-biographies-getting-to-know-your-data/.
- Cegłowski, Maciej. “Deep-Fried Data.” Idle Words, September 27, 2016. https://idlewords.com/talks/deep_fried_data.htm.
We will also be discussing our assigned reading from last class:
- Cegłowski, Maciej. “Website Obesity.” Idle Words, October 29, 2015. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm.
Additional Materials
- D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. “On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints.” In Data Feminism, 73–96. The MIT Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11805.003.0005.
- Posner, Miriam. “How Did They Make That?” Miriam Posner’s Blog, August 29, 2013. https://miriamposner.com/blog/how-did-they-make-that/.
- Posner, Miriam. “Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction – Miriam Posner’s Blog,” June 25, 2015. https://miriamposner.com/blog/humanities-data-a-necessary-contradiction/.