Want to learn more about using data in the classroom before the retreat? Check out the following resources for more information.
Articles and Websites
Cohen, P. (4 December 2010) Analyzing Literature by Words, but also by the Numbers. New York Times. Also see the other articles in the New York Times Series, “Humanities 2.0″
Davis, Hilary. “Not Just Another Pretty Picture” [data visualization; includes discussion of tools]
Dodsworth, E. (Fall 2007). Geospatial information literacy and outreach in a GIS environment. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 52.
Howser, M. (2005). Improving Undergraduate Geographic and Information Literacy by
using GIS software. Esri Education User Conference, 2005.
Howser, M. & Callahan, J. (2004). Beyond Locating Data: Academic Libraries Role in Providing GIS. Esri Education User Conference, 2004.
Esri Education User Conference Proceedings
Parry, Mark (28 May 2010). The Humanities go Google. Chronicle of Higher Education. Part of a special issue on “Big Data.”
Research Data Planning at Duke (LibGuide)
Examples & Case Studies of GIS/Data in the Classroom
Hubbs, D. (2003). GIS in Marketing: Using Library GIS Resources for Retailing Management. Esri Education User Conference, 2003.
Media
TED Talk – Deb Roy: The birth of a word
“MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son’s life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch “gaaaa” slowly turn into “water.” Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.”
Data & GIS Associations/Groups
ALA Maps & Geography Round Table
Association for Computers and the Humanities
Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities
THAT Camp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)
Raw Data Sets
IES NCES: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
ICPSR at U. Michigan (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research): An institution has to be a member to get full access to all of their datasets, but a lot of the datasets in mental health are free to anyone.
Fedstats: Provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic.
Data.gov: U.S. Federal Executive Branch datasets.
Add Health – UNC Carolina Population Center: Data sets from comprehensive longitudinal study of adolescent health.
Data & GIS Blogs
Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
Datavisualization.ch
Duke Libraries Data & GIS Blog
Flowing Data
Information is Beautiful
Social Explorer
Visual Business Intelligence
Data & GIS Tools
American FactFinder
BatchGeo
Data Wrangler
GapMinder
Google Fusion Tables
Google Public Data Explorer
Google Refine
Many Eyes
Perceptual Edge
Polymaps
SIMILE Project
Spotfire Software
Tableau Desktop Software
TimeFlow
