Week 5: Data basics

Response due Monday, February 17: Douglass Day show-and-tell - reflect on your experiences transcribing. Include a screenshot or quotation from material you worked on.

Tuesday, February 18: Data forms

• Readings
  • Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, “What gets Counted Counts”, from Data Feminism (MIT 2020)
  • Optional: D’Ignazio & Klein, “The Power Chapter”, from Data Feminism
  • Philadelphia African American Census 1847 - read the “About” page, look at the scans
• In class:
  • Workshop: Data Cleaning in OpenRefine

Agenda

1. Download and install OpenRefine on your lab computer or laptop. Note: this is a useful tool, but it does take up a fair amount of space.
2. Discussion of Data Feminism
3. Workshop: Data Cleaning in OpenRefine

Thursday, February 20: Data curation

• Readings
  • Katie Rawson and Trevor Munoz, “Against Cleaning”” from Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 (U Minnesota Press).
• In class
  • Dataset curation activity

Agenda

1. Announcements and questions
2. Continue OpenRefine tutorial where we left off: Transforming Columns
   • NB: if you didn’t save your data from last week, you can download my exported data here
3. Data curation
   • Lady Susan: Project Gutenberg text
   • Library of Congress By The People datasets: The Chrystal

Resources

• Regular Expressions Cheatsheet
• Regular Expressions tutorial: RegexOne

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