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Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results 
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Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results
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Harvard University 
Overview

Duration

10 weeks

Total fee

149

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Course Level

UG Certificate

Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results
 at 
Harvard University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Harvard University
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Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results
 at 
Harvard University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Understand which digital methods are most suitable to meaningfully analyze large databases of text
  • Identify the resources needed to complete complex digital projects and learn about their possible limitations
  • Create enhanced datasets by scraping websites, identifying character sets and search criteria, and using APIs
  • Download existing datasets and create new ones by scraping websites and using APIs
  • Enrich metadata and tag text to optimize the results of your analysis
  • Analyze thousands of books with digital methods such as topic modeling, vector models, and concept search
More about this course
  • Computation is changing the very nature of how we do research in the humanities
  • Tools from data science can help you to explore the record of human culture in ways that just wouldn't have been possible before
  • This course will show you how to draw insights from thousands of documents at once
  • You will learn how, with a few simple lines of code, to make use of the metadata the information about our objects of study to zero in on what matters most, and visualize your results so that you can understand them at a glance

Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results
 at 
Harvard University 
Curriculum

Data Science, Literature

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Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results
 at 
Harvard University 
Faculty details

Stephen Osadetz
Designation : Faculty Director of "The Digital Humanities in Practice"; Associate of the Department of English at Harvard University
Cole Crawford
Designation : Software Engineer, Humanities Research Computing at Harvard University
Christine Fernsebner Eslao
Designation : Metadata Technologies Program Manager for Harvard Library Information & Technical Services at Harvard University

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