Class Notes for October 24
Model Graphical Representations of Data
- Student post reviews
- Other examples
Reading
- Frederick W. Gibbs and Trevor J. Owens, “The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing,” in Writing History in the Digital Age, 2012.
- What does “hermeneutics” mean?
- New methods of interacting with data demand new transparency from historical presentation
- Process important (methodology)
- Why?
- What is potential cost to narrative history?
- What are data?
- Evidence for historical argument
- More than evidence: creation of data, interaction with data, interpretation of data
- Combining different kinds of datasets enables “new way to triangulate historical knowledge.” Is this new?
- “Historians must treat data as text….”
- Visualizing data
- “Aesthetic provocation”; dynamic process
- The “value of screwing around”: quantitative data more than just math and statistics: discovering, framing, identifying trends
- Failure
Group Work
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