Intro to Digital Humanities

The humanities value nuance, while computers process precisely formatted information and structured data. How do we use computers to do humanities work? What are the benefits and the limitations? Students in the course will examine these questions and learn how to use and experiment with a variety of digital methodologies for humanistic research (e.g. text mining, working with structured data, creating data visualizations). The course will also engage students in analyzing the potential intrinsic bias of source texts in datasets and the algorithms that researchers regularly use for text analysis projects, such as topic modeling. Undergraduates by permission of instructor.