Summer 2021

Taught by Professor A. Sanders, PhD

In this course I learned about key concepts in digital humanities. I also worked on a 6 week collaborative dh project which produced a website dealing with a data set focused on diversity of representation in US museums.

Key Skills Developed:

• Key concepts in data analysis

  • types of variables

  • understanding metadata

  • feminist approaches to data

  • types of models and charts

• Data cleaning

  • OpenRefine

  • Breve

• Open access data repositories and tools

  • GitHub

• Data visualization

  • Tableau

  • TimelineJS

• Data mapping

  • Carto

• Accessible design principles

• Website Design

  • Wordpress

I worked as a member of a six person team to develop a digital humanities project focused on diversity of artists represented in 18 major US museums. I served as the team editor and I was ultimately responsible for writing and collecting all of the narrative components of the final site.

The Curators Website