After a general introduction into the goals of Digital Humanities, we discuss the shift in perspective when we look at our objects of study as data points. What questions and methodologies does this new point of view prompt? We encourage you to start thinking about new research questions that could be answered by analysing the data. In order to facilitate this, we introduce a workflow that guides the process of getting from raw through presentable data. We focus on the process of acquiring data and on how to structure it in a meaningful way. We focus on Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) and writing REST queries to acquire data.
Reading material: Ben Fry - The Seven Stages of Visualizing Data
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