Midterm Exam

Your midterm exam will test and review the technical skills you have acquired to date. You’ll be expected to take a new dataset and turn it into a mini one page digital project by doing the following:

(The exam will begin in class, be open-book and you will have 72 hours from the start of class to complete it.)

Midterm Datasets
  1. Explore the Data and decide which set you want to use
    1. The data will be drawn from open-source resources at
      1. https://www.gutenberg.org/ (open source public domain texts)
      2. https://github.com/wcmaart/collection (museum art collection metadata)
      3. https://github.com/tategallery/collection (museum art collection metadata)
      4. https://github.com/BritishMuseumDH (museum photogrammetry photosets)
      5. https://github.com/malcolmbarrett/claremontrun (x-men comic book data)
      6. https://editor.allmaps.org/organizations/lmec (historic maps for georeferencing)
      7. https://github.com/iulibdcs/cushman_photos (photographer’s collection metadata)
      8. And other sources
  2. Perform any data cleaning, sorting, or filtering necessary using Excel, Sheets, OpenRefine or another tool
  3. Then DO ONE of the following
    1. Create a small digital exhibition in a new Omeka site
    2. Analyze a text for word frequency, trends, collocation or more text analysis metrics
    3. Create and publish an illustrated timeline or other data visualization using Flourish, RAWGraphs.io, TimelineJS or another data viz tool
    4. Create a network analysis graph in Palladio, Gephi, Nodegoat, or another tool
    5. Create and publish a 3D model using a set of photographs either in Fusion360, via photogrammetry, or a modeling app/program of your choice.
    6. Geolocate, then map and publish your data as an interactive, illustrated ArcGIS online web app
  4. CREATE a new subdomain of your reclaim hosting domain for “midterm”
    1. HTTPS should be used for a secure site. If a certificate is not automatically issued, issue a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate
  5. Then create a new webpage at that subdomain by EITHER
    1. Installing a new application through Installatron (e.g. a WordPress or Omeka site) on the https subdomain
    2. Creating a simple webpage from scratch with HTML and CSS at your subdomain’s document root
  6. EMBED the output of step 3 in your webpage
  7. Write a brief, single-page description that enumerates the components of your mini-project, with the following sections.
    1. Introduction to the project
    1. Sources (the dataset you used and its context and cleaning and formatting)
    2. Processes (analysis tools and techniques you used, and why)
    3. Presentation (website design and embed/illustration decisions)
    4. Significance: what insights can be gained by applying your chosen digital approach to the data? How does it relate to Digital Arts & Humanities as opposed to data science generally?
  8. Finally, post the link to your project as a new blog post on THIS SITE
    1. Categorize it Midterm
    2. Add any relevant Tags
    3. Provide a link to your midterm site and a brief one sentence description of the project.

You should review for the midterm by going over the previous labs on this site. You can use the data at the links above to practice, but you will be given focused subsets from these for the actual exam.

Specifications

A completed midterm must have all of the following components

  • Components
    • Introduction summarizing the project’s aims, methods and results
    • Sources discussing the dataset used and any steps taken to clean it
    • Process describing the DH methods used and steps taken for analysis
    • Presentation outlining decisions taken to share the results online via website on subdomain
    • Significance thoughtful discussion of results and potential/pitfalls of your approach
    • Data Visualization successful embed of data viz in presentation
    • Submission blog post written, categorized and tagged and submitted to moodle on time
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