Hai Liang

Digital Humanities: Methods and Tools (COMM5631)


1. Introduction (week 1) [slides]

  • Scopes and purposes of digital humanities
  • Introduction and overview of Tools (KNIME) 


2. Automated data collection (week 2-5) [Slides 1] [Slides 2 project explanations]


3. Data wrangling (week 6-7) [Slides]

  • Database [Knime self-learning]
  • Data clean [Knime self-learning]
    • Creating new variables, sorting, removing duplicates, and filtering
    • Text manipulation
    • Aggregating, reshaping, and merging datasets 


4. Text Mining (week 8-11) 


5. Data Visualization (week 12-13) [Slides] [Slides]

  • General principles & tools [Slides for self-learning]
  • Network visualization
  • Location visualization