Final Projects

Final Project Guidelines

For your final project, you will work with a group to create a web-based mini-site (Wix, WordPress, ReclaimHosting, &c.) that explores and analyzes a dataset from multiple angles. 

Your DH project must contain the following:

• A full, annotated bibliography

• A narrative of about 2,000 words that describes your research and findings about the topic you’ve been assigned. Included within the narrative should be:

• At least five data visualizations that explore clearly defined humanities questions

• Clear “map” of your (mixed) methodology including the theoretical lenses that helped drive your research

• At least one timeline that provides context for your topic. In other words, why does your topic matter within the scope of history?

• Appropriate, appealing, well-captioned and credited illustrations or photographs

• A clear, full “About” page that contains the following information:

• Full technical descriptions of the three levels of a DH project (assets, services, interface), along with full explanations of your reasoning for making the decisions you made at each level. You should cite relevant class readings to give context for these decisions

• Short bios of each team member, along with a full accounting of who was responsible for what

• Acknowledgments of the various people who helped you (PLEASE take advantage of the resources available through the UCB libraries)

• A data critique that explains fully what information is included in your dataset, what information, events, or phenomena your dataset can illuminate, and what it cannot. You should also give your account of the ideological effects of the way in which your sources have been divided into data (your dataset’s ontology).

• Extra stuff you might want to include: video, audio, slideshows, &c.