Digital Humanities Summer Institute #DHSI18 Day 3 [Afternoon] Making Choices About Your Data

Making Choices About Your Data
Digital Humanities Summer Institute #DHSI18 Day 3 (Afternoon)
Paige Morgan and Yvonne Lam

Article "Against Cleaning"
Committing to giving certain answers when you are cleaning data. How do I make this material discoverable and allow it to intersect more clearly with discoveries being made in this field.

You may feel like you need to tune your data so it gives specific answers. But the more you do is not to get project to spit out answers for people, but give answers that help people rethink.  What is the info I wan to surface for people, how do I get my data to surface that?

[Much more concern for how *others* are going to use data here with the digital humanists that in my experience with social science, where we collect our data to answer our questions, then fin. Kudos to DH folks!]

Expansion without growth - scalability

Who is your audience? Who is relying on your workflow or the decisions you made that you can't explain? Take your feelings about your data seriously. If you feel like it won;t fit into a spreadsheet or that you're losing something, you probably are.

Work time.






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