Specialization Paths
Project Manager
- Description
- Coordinates workflow between group members, assigns tasks
- Controls group GitHub project and branch merges
- Writes the 'Introduction' (both in the README.md and docs/index.md), and 'Problems and Possibilities' portions
- Ensures everything is working
- Flags issues and follows up on task completion
- Tools
- Tutorials
- Getting Started with Markdown
- An Introduction to Version Control Using GitHub Desktop
- GitIt
- GitKraken Client (More powerful alternative to Github Desktop)
- Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown
- Readings
Data Scientist
- Description
- Scrapes Data
- Scrub/Refines Data
- Sets controlled language (what possible answers are allowed) for different data columns
- Writes the 'Workflow' section, describing their process from scraping to visualization, describing not only what programs were used, but any important changes or decisions made at different steps and why your group made those decisions
- Tools
- WebScraper.io
- Microsoft Excel
- OpenRefine
- Trifacta Data Wrangler For transforming data sets
- Tabula PDF Table Extractor
- Tutorials
- WebScraper Documentation
- Tutorials Point, Excel Basics
- Cleaning Data with OpenRefine
- Fetching and Parsing Data from the Web with OpenRefine
- https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/understanding-regular-expressions
- Reshaping JSON with jq
- Trifacta Data Wrangler For transforming data sets
- Automated Downloading with wGet
- Applied Archival Downloading with wGet
- Readings
Visualization Expert
- Description
- Performs exploratory visualizations for group members
- Refines and selects from exploratory visualizations to make dashboards
- Refines and chooses final dashboards for project
- Writes both the 'Initial Findings' and 'Problems and Possibilities' reports
- Tools
- Tableau
- Palladio
- Microsoft Excel
- Gephi * Network Analysis
- Plot.ly
- Raw
- OverviewDocs * Text Analysis
- Voyant * Text Analysis
- AntConc * Text Analysis
- TopicModelingTool * Text Analysis
- Tutorials
- Tableau Training and Tutorials - Tableau Software
- Tableau Tutorial - TutorialsPoint
- Using Palladio
- Tutorials Point, Excel Basics
- Using Powermap for Excel
- [The Complete n00b’s Guide to Gephi]http://www.briansarnacki.com/gephi-tutorial/
- Electric Archaeology, Getting Historical Network Data into Gephi
- Electric Archaeology, Converting 2 Mode Networks with Multimodal Plugin for Gephi
- Electric Archaeology, Beyond the Spaghetti Monster
- Plot.ly
- Visualizing texts using Overview – Electric Archaeology
- Mass Reading with Overview
- Getting Started with Voyant
- Using Voyant for Text Analysis
- Untangling Text: Voyant Tools’ Knots for Text Analysis
- Programming Historian, Corpus Analysis with AntConc
- Readings
- Textbook, [Exploring Big Historical Data], chapter on visualization
- DHQ, Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display
- Scott Weingart, Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II
- DH Lab at CVCE, Cheat Sheet: Social Network Analysis for Humanists
- Elijah Meeks, Contextualizing Networks with Maps
- Other readings on visualizations coming soon.
Scholarship Analyst
- Description
- Researches relevant digital works/projects
- Researches related historical scholarship
- Writes the Bibliography portion of the 'Bibliography and Credits' section
- Writes the historiography and digital scholarship portions of the 'Background' section
- Readings
- Journals / Volumes
- Blogs
- Other