Data visualization techniques and methods are increasingly being taken up as another tool at the digital humanist's disposal, for working with both traditional (e.g. texts) and non-traditional (e.g. spatial) data sets in the Humanities. Visualizing data can lead to new research insights about the phenomena they describe, as well as offering a dynamic way of presenting your findings.

The "Data Visualization for the Humanities" series is comprised of four workshops:

1. Working with Humanities Data: the foundational workshop of the series, in which you will learn how to harvest data from the web and clean it for use in later workshops.

2. An Introduction to Textual Analysis with Voyant Tools: we will use the web-based application, Voyant Tools (https://voyant-tools.org/), to analyze and visualize the contents of text documents.

3. An Introduction to Data Visualization with Tableau: working with numeric and spatial data, you will learn how to create visualizations in Tableau (https://www.tableau.com/).

4. An Introduction to Social Network Analysis with Gephi: we will use another visualization tool intended for social network analysis, Gephi (https://gephi.org/), to map and identify relationships within a dataset scraped from Twitter.

You can attend one, several or all of the workshops; the first workshop, Working with Humanities Data, is strongly recommended as a prerequisite for the remaining workshops.

"Data Visualization for the Humanities" takes place on Thursdays from 10AM to 12PM.

Location: Leddy Library; room to be confirmed via email. Please verify that your email address is correctly entered on the form, as instructions will be sent in advance of the workshop.