COMM5631: Digital Humanities: Methods and Tools

COMM5631 (2022-2023 Term 2)
Teacher: Prof. LIANG Hai (NAH310)
NAH209: Th 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM

Syllabus with Textbooks and readings.

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 with project explanations
   • APIs What is an API Twitter’s APIs Video
   • Screen scraping Video
   • Page navigation & Storage
   • Automated browser Selenium Video
3. Data wrangling (week 6-7) Slides
   • Database Knime self-learning
   • Data clean
   • Creating new variables, sorting, removing duplicates, and filtering
   • Text manipulation
   • Aggregating, reshaping, and merging datasets
4. Text Mining (week 8-11)
   • Keywords extraction Slides
   • Topic modeling Slides
   • Sentiment analysis Slides
   • Processing Chinese Slides Reading
5. Data Visualization (week 12-13) Slides Slides
   • General principles & tools Slides for self-learning
   • How to Make a Chart or Graph in Excel
   • Network visualization
   • Location visualization Slides