Many places have great introductory data science courses and resources like this course from Columbia, columbiadatascience.com/about-the-class/, a 3 course sequence at UF (each course is 3 credits) on data in Computer Science, and UCLA’s Intro to Digital Humanities (dh101.humanities.ucla.edu). UCLA’s Intro to Digital Humanities covers “Concepts, Methods, and Tutorials for Students and Instructors.”
I’m missing or haven’t found what I would consider to be an introductory data course that covers “Concepts, Methods, and Tutorials for Students and Instructors” at the level that my experience tells me is needed. I’m not confident that I’m correct on this, but I have too many conversations on data with folks from all fields and all levels where there are gaps that could be best supported with more on concepts. Other findings support this need:
After coding and analysis, several major themes emerged from the faculty’s observations of graduate students’ deficiencies in data management. These themes are metadata, standardizing documentation processes, maintaining relationships among data, ethics, quality assurance, basic database skills, and preservation. (muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v011/11.2.carlson.html)
The full article for the quote above lists core competencies and more completely explains their findings. My reading of it indicate a need for greater emphasis on concepts (as well as being applied to specific data needs). UCLA’s Intro to Digital Humanities is the best model for what I’m looking for, but I’m looking for greater emphasis on data, so removing some of that course and then adding in more resources like those from Columbia’s Intro to Data Science.
In this session, I’d like to discuss developing the framework for such a course, with the understanding that there would be many guest lecturers and teachers, including:
SobekCM : Introduction to SobekCM’s for Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects & Make a Project with SobekCM is a proposed Teach and Make session. The first part of the session will provide a quick introduction to the Open Source SobekCM Digital Repository software which powers digital GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) as well as many digital scholarship and Digital Humanities projects and more!
The Make portion of the session will include registering for an account, creating a new project, and an applied overview of the tools for your project. Participants are encouraged to bring materials for real projects and possible projects, and to have no projects – the Make portion of this session will be a great learning experience and great fun!
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