Week 2: Data

Project Charter

Post your project charter by 9am EDT, Friday, June 14. Use the Project Charter category.

Personas

Post at least one persona narrative by 9am EDT, Friday, June 14. Use the Personas category.

HTML and CSS

While not required, having some skills in HTML and CSS will help with many of the tools that we use. We recommend using the college’s LinkedIn Learning courses if you want to gain more experience working with them:

These two courses will take you about 4 hours to complete. Feel free to take additional courses if you want.

Monday, June 10

9:15am–9:45am EDT: Monday Check-In

10am–Noon EDT: Workshop: Inside the Black Box: How to Read Digital Projects

Today, we will take a look at the basic building blocks of any website: HTML and CSS. We will pull apart a few websites to see what makes them tick. Today’s session is not going to teach you how to code, but it will give you some experience thinking through what makes websites work and how to pick digital tools to use with your own project.

Before the workshop:

  • Watch “You Must Choose … But Choose Wisely” (30 minutes)
  • Create a Gettysburg Sites domain and install an SSL certificate using the DH Toolkit tutorial (you can stop at the section “Use Installatron to Add Applications”).
    • Remember, what you use for the Choose your Domain field will remain part of your Sites URL no matter what you use it for (example: rmiessle.sites.gettysburg.edu). This is a hassle to change, and you only get one Sites account, so choose wisely!

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Tuesday, June 11

10am–Noon EDT: Workshop: Introduction to Data Visualization (OPEN)

How do we use data to make meaning? Can data make you feel something? What even count as “data”? Data visualizations can offer a shortcut to understanding information and help researchers make stories from raw knowledge. In today’s session, we’ll talk about how data visualizations work and how they can be used to teach, reveal, and persuade. You’ll also have the opportunity to practice drafting your own visualizations.

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Wednesday, June 12

10am–Noon EDT: Workshop: Data Visualization – Charts, Graphs, and Much More (OPEN)

When we think of data visualizations, charts and graphs often come to mind. And while those are certainly ways to visualize data, there are many more! Today, we will experiment with digital data visualization using a tool called Flourish.

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Thursday, June 13

10am–Noon EDT: Workshop: Data Visualization – Space (OPEN)

Digital maps allow us to visualize data spatially, in modern, historical, and even fantastical constructs. Generally, digital mapping can be divided between narrative maps, that is, maps that follow a path and tell a story, and data-driven maps, or maps that are focused on visualizing various large sets of data (such as GIS). Today we will focus on maps that tell narratives using StoryMapJS, as well as annotation as a different type of mapping.

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1:30pm-2pm: Workshop: Zotero (OPEN)

Optional for DHF!

Meet in Library 014 for a workshop run by our Research and Instruction Librarians on how to use Zotero.

Friday, June 14

9:15–9:45am EDT: Weekly Updates and Planning

10am–Noon EDT: Workshop: Data Visualization – Time (OPEN)

Just as maps allow us to visualize data spatially, timelines are a way to visualize chronological events that occur in a linear fashion, but perhaps more importantly, show us how to conceptualize a linear progression of time as points of data. We will be looking at one tool specifically, TimelineJS. Note: for this session, you will need to have a  Google account (you do not need a Gmail address).

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