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The D-Lab is proud to present our new brown bag series, "How We Did It", a bi-weekly, hour-long presentation on specific topics from quantitative data cleaning to best practices for entering the field for participant observation. Each brown bag will feature a short presentation/demonstration on techniques followed by an informal question and answer/comment session.
The goal of the series is to provide instruction and information on more specific topics and foster methods-specific community building.
We welcome graduate students from all disciplines at all stages of research.
Thursday, April 14 Seminar:
Many social-science and humanistic research projects involve human coding of documents or other media. But when the number of documents becomes large, traditional workflows can leave you overwhelmed and disorganized. This presentation by Bill Welsh (advanced graduate student in Sociology) offers a real-world example of a "workflow that works" for big digital humanities research. A concise set of guiding principles and a large number of practical tips are illustrated with the example of a project involving human coding of Chinese official documents.
