For your final assignment, you can choose to write the research paper or choose from one of the topics below. These options allow you to infuse a new technology into your project ranging from data visualization, simple text mining and web authoring tools. For more about Digital Humanities at Seton Hall, visit:http://blogs.shu.edu/digitalhumanities/
Data Visualizer is a World Bank tool which employs “bubble charts” to display data in four dimensions. In each chart, the size of the country circle represents a volume measure, such as population or GDP. The position of the bubbles is determined by the indicators selected for the horizontal and vertical axes. The time series used in Data Visualizer is a subset of 2009 World Development Indicators database. As of 4/20/2010, Data Visualizer contains 49 indicators for 209 countries and 18 aggregates from 1960-2007. Data includes social, economic, financial, information and technology, and environmental indicators.Text m
ining is a research technique using computational analysis to uncover patterns in large text-based data sets. It is useful in numerous scholarly fields, from the humanities, where it is one of the tools of digital humanities, to the sciences, where useful data can be mined from text databases of published literature. Source: UMass Amherst Libraries
The JSTOR Data for Research (DfR) service, freely available to the public, provides text and data mining tools for selecting and interacting with the content in JSTOR. The tools include faceted searching, topic modeling, and data visualization. Researchers can obtain, view and bulk download document-level datasets, including word frequencies, citations, key terms and ngrams. JSTOR will work with you to tailor datasets to your needs. For more information, see the Data for Research FAQ.
For technically inclined students who want to challenge themselves, they can use this web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations. A proposal of topic must be submitted that would include images, maps or data that would be captured plus a development timeline. See links below for more information.