Harpur Crash Course: Getting Started with Data Analysis

What Will This Workshop Cover?

We live in a world filled with and defined by data. This workshop introduces the basics of gathering social, cultural, and historical data, understanding it, and gaining meaning from it. The techniques for working with data will be useful not only as tools for academic research but also in the workplace. We will use a number of open source computational tools, including hands-on experience with Tableau, a powerful, but easy-to-use analytics platform.

 

Who Is This Workshop For?

This workshop is geared towards undergraduate students in the humanities or social sciences, particularly those who do not have any prior experience working with datasets or data analysis software. (Graduate students or students from other colleges are not eligible for this workshop.)

 

Who Is Leading This Workshop?

Jason Tercha is a PhD candidate in the History Department. His dissertation research on the rural networks in the early United States uses digital tools to map, interpret, and rethink historical data from the nineteenth century United States. Along with Lauren Cesiro, he assisted Nancy Um and Amy Gay with Binghamton's inaugural Digital Humanities Research Institute, and taught units on ArcGIS Online, Esri Story Maps, and data visualization with Tableau.

 

Amy Gay is the Digital Scholarship Librarian for Binghamton University, where she supports digital-oriented scholarship across campus. She leads efforts for the development of a Digital Scholarship Center, manages the Open Repository @Binghamton (the ORB), and offers workshops and consultations focused on the use of digital tools for research and pedagogy. She was the co-organizer, with Nancy Um, of Binghamton's inaugural Digital Humanities Research Institute.

 

Amanda Ortiz Molina is a PhD student in the History Department. She participated in Binghamton's inaugural Digital Humanities Research Institute in May 2019. Amanda is interested in using digital tools to explore the spatial and social networks of credit in colonial Latin America.

 

Nancy Um is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean at Harpur College at Binghamton University. She teaches and writes on a variety of digital humanities topics, including data visualization, digital mapping, and digital publishing. She was the co-organizer, with Amy Gay, of Binghamton's inaugural Digital Humanities Research Institute.