csv, excel importing
pandas, tables, basic matrix and vector operations
basic summarization
boolean indexing
simple graphing
READ BEFORE CLASS:
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Frederick Gibbs and Trevor Owens, The Hermeneutics of Data and Historical Writing
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Steven Ruggles, “The Transformation of American Family Structure.” The American Historical Review 99 (1 1994): 103. (http://users.pop.umn.edu/~ruggles/Articles/AHR.pdf)
Check out this data source: https://www.ipums.org/
plurality of sources
basic text mining ideas: stemming, stopwords, word frequencies
measuring similarity
READ BEFORE CLASS:
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Ramsay, Stephen. Reading Machines toward an Algorithmic Criticism. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2011, ch. 3
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“Sapping Attention: Stopwords to the Wise.” Accessed May 25, 2014. http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2011/04/stopwords-to-wise.html.
Check out this data source:Capitol Words
pdf extraction
regex
text mining: LSA, LDA and friends (gensim)
READ BEFORE CLASS:
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Bus Subsidies in Argentina, La Nacion: http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/case_studies_14.html
introductory social network analysis
networkx, gephi
READ BEFORE CLASS
- S. Graham, I. Milligan, & S. Weingart, The Historian's Macroscope, Section on Networks.
- Look at: “Connected China”, http://connectedchina.reuters.com/
Using aad.archives.gov public sector strike information
(http://aad.archives.gov/aad/content/aad_docs/rg257_workstop_recordlayout_1953-77_1_of_2.pdf)
(http://aad.archives.gov/aad/content/aad_docs/rg257_workstop_recordlayout_1953-77_2_of_2.pdf)
census, mapping, python and GIS
- Read: Richard White, “What is Spatial History"