Summer School 2024

Welcome to the Exploring Culture Through Data: Digital Methods & Data Practices Summer School 2024! We are excited to offer an in-depth exploration of using digital methods and data practices to analyze and understand culture. Join us to learn how to leverage data to gain insights into various cultural phenomena. Whether you are new to programming or an experienced data analyst, we have something for everyone.

For an overview of the week, see the week schedule:

More information can be found in the Microsoft Teams class and via the LinkedIn event .

Contents

The content of this repository consists of three parts:

1. Jupyter Notebooks, to be found under code.
2. Data that will be used during various assignments, found under data.
3. Documentation on the course materials and presentations can be found under docs.

With that, the total structure looks roughly as follows:

Summer-School-2024/
├── code/
│   ├── 01_preparation/
│   ├── 02_basics_of_programming/
│   ├── 03_text_analysis/
│   ├── 04_data_visualization/
├── data/
│   ├── GDP_by_country.xlsx
│   ├── songs.csv
└── docs/
    ├── assignment.ipynb
    ├── documentation.ipynb
    ├── instructions.ipynb
    ├── questions.ipynb
    ├── syllabus.ipynb
    ├── slides/
    │   ├── presentation.pdf
    └── img/
        ├── logo.png
        └── diagram.png
├── README.md

License & credits

This work is licensed under the MIT License. This summer school was created by Data School at Utrecht University.

Inspiration was drawn from the Educational materials by the Centre for Digital Humanities.