Small Data, Big Dreams: Minimal Computing for Data Collection & Visualizati

Big digital dreams often start small! Scholars have data, images, and resources they want to better understand, contextualize, and publish, but get bogged down in debating expensive infrastructure or gaining skills to combat the learning curve of coding. This workshop empowers participants with the tools and support necessary to use software and data toward sustainable research/teaching/publishing. Following the principles of minimal computing, participants will get hands-on experience with spreadsheets, Jekyll, and Leaflet as they build a website from a small dataset.

Participants may include graduate students looking to create and control a collection of digital artifacts, community organizers interested in publishing community data with limited resources, and those new to digital scholarship wanting to engage DH questions of sustainability, ethical project management, and access/control.

Instructors

Cassandra Hradil is the assistant director for teaching and pedagogy at Narraspace, a mixed-reality storytelling lab at the University of Maryland. She is also a faculty specialist at the African-American Digital and Experimental Humanities Initiative (AADHUM) and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Her work at Narraspace, MITH, and AADHUM focuses on the tactility of craft as a mechanism for storytelling with and about technology.

Emily Esten focuses on digital tools for scholarly communication. They are a Customer Success Manager at Knowledge Futures, in charge of technical client support projects for publishing software. Before that, they worked as a curator at Penn Libraries, where they built digital exhibitions and supported the growing Judaica DH research community. They also have expertise in digital exhibitions and collections as data.

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