From 779c4992762ebc0cdd1b9bedc62baf38dd0fd37b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christina Smith Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:56:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Create ChristinaWeek7DiscussionQuestions --- _posts/ChristinaWeek7DiscussionQuestions | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/ChristinaWeek7DiscussionQuestions diff --git a/_posts/ChristinaWeek7DiscussionQuestions b/_posts/ChristinaWeek7DiscussionQuestions new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e34058b --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/ChristinaWeek7DiscussionQuestions @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Week 7 Discussion Questions + +(Sorry if this is a repeat--I posted these last night, but now can't seem to find where they are on GitHub. Thankfully I'd taken a screenshot of them in case something happened!) + +1. On "Tooling up for the digital humanities"/Data visualization/4: Communication and Storytelling-- Here we read that visualization is about transparency, about letting people explore and examine your source data. The article mentions that there's a trend, as of late, to expose the underlying dataset so that your users can download it and use it further. Why *wouldn't* you want to do this, other than if your information is top-secret? What holds one back from doing this? (I guess this could have some of the same pros/cons as open source software, too). + +2. In the article on "Demystifying Networks" we read that humanities face problems from the outset with networks--because our data doesn't fit neatly into one category or another (or at least it doesn't usually). This is sort of a broad question, but where are most of the tools digital medievalists are using being developed? And who is developing them? (Here I think to libraries, such as Stanford's). We've talked a lot about providing feedback as to how well certain projects/programs work when they're actually used by medievalists to answer medieval reserach questions. But how close to the core of these programs are medievalists going, on a whole? This is probably worded really poorly--I'll ask more specifically in person.