This is the handout from the “Introduction to Data Cleaning and Visualization Tools” workshop led by Micki Kaufman* on Thursday, March 13th 2014. The workshop presented the fundamentals of using data in humanities research, with specific focus on data cleaning and basic visualization techniques and practices.
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CUNY GC Digital Fellows Workshop:
Intro to Data Cleaning and Visualization Tools
Workshop Packet available here:
http://www.mickikaufman.com/dfw-tools.zip
This workshop’s Google Drive shared folder is available here:
https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#folders/0B3fKjwvUspd5ZzhaUUVrY0RxeE0
Data Collection and Management
- DownThemAll http://www.downthemall.net/
- Microsoft Excel / OpenOffice
- Google Refine / OpenRefine http://openrefine.org
- TextWrangler / BBEdit / (WordPad, NotePad) http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Visualization
- Gephi http://www.gephi.org
- ManyEyes Visualization Site http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/
- D3 http://d3js.org
- FlowingData http://flowingdata.com/
- Visual.ly http://visual.ly/
*You can also view this information on Micki Kaufman’s website.
