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Item Choosing a Digital Method: Mapping(2017-09-07) Partlow, MiaDigital mapping offers a variety of options that range in complexity from dropping a point on your smartphone’s mapping application to analyzing statistical differences in different geographies to warping geography for historical or artistic purposes. In addition to learning digital mapping methodology for humanist and social sciences research, and adapt mapping tools for artistic practice, we will discuss the critical application of these tools and how they can be used effectively in the classroom. This presentation is part of a series of workshops offered by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities called Choosing a Digital Method.Item Intro to Humanities Data: Simple Visualizations for Complex Arguments(2018-01-23) Giroux, Stacey; Partlow, MiaThere are many tools and platforms for creating data visualizations, but in order to ensure they communicate in an effective way, your visualizations must be grounded in the appropriate quantitative methods. In this workshop, we will present some problematic humanities datasets and case studies, and use them to walk through the structure and assumptions your data will need to meet in order to create effective data visualizations. Introductory quantitative methods and vocabularies will be presented.Item Intro to Humanities Data: The Path to Complex Visualizations and Statistics(2018-01-30) Partlow, Mia; Craig, Kalani L.At times more complex data visualizations are necessary to communicate your argument and explore the multiple dimensions of your dataset. This hands-on session will start you down the path towards employing statistical methods to communicate your argument, and will give you a chance to bring your own data and work through options for visualizations. During the workshop we will use two sample datasets to discuss how they were prepared and structured to enable comparison with regression analysis. We'll discuss regression analysis and how you can compare two datasets in a way that ensures you're getting useful information.Item Intro to Humanities Data: Transforming Evidence into Data(2018-01-16) Dalmau, Michelle; Partlow, MiaDigital tools for mapping, data visualization, and network analysis offer opportunities to discover, answer, and present research for scholars working in the arts and humanities. But these methods require moving your evidence and research into a data structure appropriate for your chosen tool. In this workshop, we'll discuss the types of decisions you'll encounter when representing your humanities evidence in a digital environment and best practices for structuring your research data for use in a number of digital tools.Item Slaughterhouses, Land Use Conflicts, & Neighborhood Identity: A Digital Mapping and Topic Modeling Project(2018-04-13) Partlow, MiaLouisville’s Butchertown neighborhood is a mixed residential, industrial, and commercial area that from the nineteenth through early-twentieth centuries was dominated by animal industries such as stock yards, slaughterhouses, soap factories, and tanneries. In 1892 there were more than 50 such businesses in Butchertown, which sits on 50 acres—less than one square mile—of land. Today, there are three sites of animal industry in the neighborhood, including a large industrial slaughterhouse called JBS Swift. The 20-acre stock yard, where cattle and hogs were auctioned to slaughterhouses, only closed in 1999. This poster presents research on how the presence and subsequent decline of a dominant neighborhood industry inflects discourses of neighborhood production, including those that arise over conflicts over land use and the creation of a neighborhood identity. Using a combination of digital mapping and topic modeling methods enabled the discovery of spatialized discourse,revealing the ways in which capitalis enacted and produced within the context of the neighborhood's form. The digital map marks the sites of these industries as well as the changes to those sites over time, from 1892 to 2018, while topic models generated from newspaper articles about Butchertown uncover discourses surrounding the community and neighborhood development. Putting the topic models and the map in conversation with one another demonstrates that as Butchertown’s core industry declined, conflicts over the ideal way to extract value from the “fixed capital” (Harvey, 1985, p.6) of the built environment emerged, and continue today.