COMM5631: Digital Humanities: Methods and Tools
Master course, School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK, 2022
COMM5631 (2022-2023 Term 2)
Teacher: Prof. LIANG Hai (NAH310)
NAH209: Th 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Syllabus with Textbooks and readings.
- Introduction (week 1) slides
- Scopes and purposes of digital humanities
- Introduction and overview of Tools (KNIME)
- 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
- 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
- Text Mining (week 8-11)
- 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