IS310 - Culture As Data Spring 2026
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March
Mar 12: How do we get culture as data?
Schedule Overview
January
Jan 20: Why Represent Culture As Data?
Jan 22: How Will We Work in this Course?
Jan 27: What does it mean to work with culture as data responsibly?
Jan 29: How can we work collaboratively and computationally?
February
Feb 3: How and when did we first start representing culture as data?
Feb 5: What does it mean to work digitally?
Feb 10: What are the historic legacies and politics of representing culture as data?
Feb 12: How has the web changed culture as data?
Feb 17: Who decides what culture becomes data?
Feb 19: How can we represent culture computationally?
Feb 24: How do our choices shape whose culture becomes data?
Feb 26: How can we start creating culture as data?
March
Mar 3: How do we ethically and legally work with culture as data?
Mar 5: How do we start scaling culture as data?
Mar 10: What is infrastructure and how does it shape culture as data?
Mar 12: How do we get culture as data?
Mar 24: What do we mean when we “clean” culture as data?
Mar 26: How do we work at scale with culture at data?
Mar 31: How do we tell stories about culture with data?
April
Apr 2: How do we tell stories at scale?
Apr 7: How do we build trust with culture as data?
Apr 9: How can computation augment culture as data?
Apr 14: How are new technologies shaping culture as data?
Apr 16: What does it mean to use computation critically for culture as data?
Apr 21: How can we responsibly use AI for culture as data?
Apr 23: What don’t we know about culture as data?
Apr 28: How can we preserve culture as data?
Apr 30: How do we document culture as data?
May
May 5: What are the horizons for culture as data?
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March
Mar 12: How do we get culture as data?
Interfaces & Limits
How do we get culture as data?
Published
March 12, 2026
In-Class Agenda
Review
Command Line Data Curation Homework
Answer any questions for the web scraping assignment.
Start
introduction to APIs and cultural data
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Additional Materials
Assignments
Individual
Command Line Data Curation Homework
Initial Dataset for Final Project
. Extension available until March 24.