Schedule & Assignments Overview

Note

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)
January 20 - Why Represent Culture As Data? Introducing Computing in the Humanities & Culture As Data	January 22 - How Will We Work in This Course? Programming & Processing
January 27 - What does it mean to work with culture as data responsibly, and how does this change across disciplines and industries? Responsible Computing of Culture & Contextualizing Social Knowledge	January 29 - How can we work collaboratively and computationally? Version & File Histories
February 3 - How and when did we first start representing culture as data? Histories of Culture & Computing	February 5 - What does it mean to work digitally? Markup & Markdown
February 10 - What are the historic legacies and politics of representing culture as data? Digital Objects & Obsolescence	February 12 - How has the web changed culture as data? Servers & Web Standards
February 17 - Who decides what culture becomes data? Archives & Collections	February 19 - How can we represent culture computationally? Scripts & Types
February 24 - How do our choices shape whose culture becomes data? Data Feminism & Design Justice	February 26 - How can we start creating culture as data? Ecosystems & Environments
March 3 - How do we ethically and legally work with culture as data? Terms & Traps	March 5 - How do we start scaling culture as data? Scrape On & Off
March 10 - What is infrastructure and how does it shape culture as data? Standardizing Culture & Data Archeology	March 12 - How do we get culture as data? Interfaces & Limits
March 17 & 19 - Spring Break
March 24 - What do we mean when we “clean” culture as data? Cleaning & Curating	March 26 - How do we work at scale with culture at data? Patterns & Outliers
March 31 - How do we tell stories about culture with data? Arguments & Plots	April 2 - How do we tell stories at scale? Scrolls & Hovers
April 7 - How do we build trust with culture as data? Networks & Names	April 9 - How can computation augment culture as data? Texts & Tokens
April 14 - How are new technologies shaping culture as data? Augmentation & AI	April 16 - What does it mean to use computation critically for culture as data? Critical & Computational
April 21 - How can we responsibly use AI for culture as data? Speculations & Classifications	April 23 - What don’t we know about culture as data? Questions & Revisions
April 28 - How can we preserve culture as data? Publics & Principles	April 30 - How do we document culture as data? Sheets & Cards

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 January 21
Init IS310 Homework	Due by Midnight CT on January 28
Lost & Found in the Cultural Command Line Homework	Due by Midnight CT on February 4
Source & Style Homework	Due By Midnight CT on February 11
Doing It Live Homework	Due By Midnight CT on February 23
OPTIONAL Scripting Python Foundations	Due by Midnight CT on March 4
Command Line Data Curation Homework	Due By Midnight CT on March 11
Fandom Wikis and Web Scraping Homework	Due By Midnight CT on March 23
GETting Culture Across APIs Homework	Due By Midnight CT on April 1
Exploring and Visualizing Culture Homework	Due By Midnight CT on April 23

Group Assignments

Assignment	Due Date (Subject to Change)
Collective & Individual Topic Selection	Due February 5 with Optional Extension Until February 12
Mass Digitization & Digital Libraries Group Assignment	Due February 10 & 12 In-Class Presentations
Critical Computing & Cultural Data	Due April 14 & 16 In-Class Presentations